Disregard Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

If we could read the secret history of our enemies,

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace…

— Anonymous

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

— Ronald Reagan

I think I have made it clear that I never intended to make enemies. But in an age when anti-foreign sentiment was running high,…

— Fukuzawa Yukichi

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

— Anne Michaels

It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the…

— Learned Hand

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in…

— Bernard Beckett

Our history doesn't look at our own violence, the violence in our own past, and we go out and repeat it someplace else.

— Robert Hass

If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of…

— Sam Keen

But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with…

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy

— R. A. Salvatore