Enemy Quotes

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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art. — George Bernard Shaw
If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies. — Thomas Hobbes
The more we see that any action springs not from the motive of obedience, the more evident is it that it is a temptation of… — Teresa of Avila
Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife. — Pope Leo I
As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies proved… — Victor Davis Hanson
Did either the nonexistent or the measured response after a series of attacks on Americans the past decade - in Lebanon, Africa, Saudi Arabia, New… — Victor Davis Hanson
It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost anyone who comes… — Victor Davis Hanson
Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
It is regrettable that Senator Kennedy has chosen Veteran's Day to continue leveling baseless and false attacks that send the wrong signal to our troops… — Scott McClellan
Critics have stepped up their attacks on the President for authorizing the National Security Agency to listen to international communications of known al Qaeda members… — Scott McClellan
And as for the Pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy and Antichrist, with all his false doctrine. — Thomas Cranmer
Industry is the enemy of melancholy — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered… — Wendell Phillips
From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to… — Hideki Tojo
Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships… — Henning Mankell
What do we mean by the defeat of the enemy? Simply the destruction of his forces, whether by death, injury, or any other means-either completely… — Carl von Clausewitz
No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy — Carl von Clausewitz
Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this… — Carl von Clausewitz
Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature. — Carl von Clausewitz

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