"To live with our enemies as if they……" — Thomas Paine
"To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim"
More Enemies Quotes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the… — Aristophanes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over… — Aristotle
- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have… — Francis of Assisi
- No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their… — Dean Acheson
- Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately. — Alec Baldwin
- Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! — Honore de Balzac
- If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the… — Honore de Balzac
- The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies… — Edward Abbey
- When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. — Joseph Addison
- An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer
- A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear… — Ambrose Bierce
- I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them. — Buffalo Bill