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Enemy Quotes by Victor Davis Hanson
- 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…
- Did either the nonexistent or the measured response after a series of attacks on Americans the past decade - in Lebanon, Africa, Saudi Arabia, New…
- 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…
- Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy - diverse enemies all - did not require the weeding out of all the fascists and…
- The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it seems to be…
- The fact is that we have been consistent in a predictable 60-year commitment to national security, while our friends and former enemies - by intent…
- Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
- History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more…
- This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory…
More Enemy Quotes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. — Dean Acheson
- Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so… — Dan Aykroyd
- In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. — Francis Bacon
- We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling… — Douglas Bader
- Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately. — Alec Baldwin
- It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. — James A. Baldwin
- The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if… — Stanley Baldwin
- Biography should be written by an acute enemy. — Arthur Balfour
- Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always… — Hosea Ballou