Enemies

"A thing devised by the enemy."

"It will let in and out the enemy With bag and baggage."

"No enemy is worse than bad advice."

"The Americans, my people, are our enemies."

"We need to think very, very clearly about who the enemy is. The enemy is the United States of America and everyone who supports it."

"To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice … you feel … in yourself."

"J'ai toujours fait une prière à Dieu, qui est fort courte. La voici: Mon Dieu, rendez nos ennemis bien ridicules! Dieu m'a exaucé."

"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

"You can know an awful lot about an enemy if you know what he didn’t do as well as what he did do. If you figure out what you yourself should have done under the same circumstances, and know he didn’t do, why, that gives you some valuable hints as to his deficiencies."

"Heero Yuy: Who...Who are...My Enemies? My enemies are the ones after my life...My enemies are the ones that are after my life and the ones that toy with my life...They're all my enemies."

"March 27. Still they come in, with about fifty more of the rebels. They look starved and wild, but here they will have enough to eat, and will be cared for as our own men. How strange it seems to see them lying so close to those whom they met so lately with bloody intent—now all powerless to harm them, even if rage had not died out in their hearts."

"Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies."

"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."

"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

"Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people, by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations."

"Again people are looking for scapegoats. But this time the attack comes not from the outside but from within, from extremist splinter groups of the New Left made up of students and—I am sorry to acknowledge—also of some faculty who would like to see our colleges and universities denigrated, maligned and even shut down. They insinuate, distort, accuse, their aim being not to identify and correct real abuses, but always rather by crying alarm intentionally to arouse and inflame passions in order to build support for "non-negotiable demands." Clearly the old McCarthy technique is at work again…. It is more difficult to maintain a realistic sense of human limitation, to refuse to become frustrated and angry; to analyze, to assess, to seek to understand and explain; to determine to be adult and fair; and thus to work patiently to improve while refusing to succumb to either cynicism or hopelessness. It is the long way around, but it is the civilized way, and the only way for those [who] have come truly to understand the role of humane learning."

"I have beheld no day since the commencement of hostilities that I have thought her liberties in such eminent danger as at present. Friends and foes seem now to combine to pull down the goodly fabric as we have hitherto been raising at the expence of so much time, blood, and treasure; and unless the bodies politick will exert themselves to bring things back to first principles, correct abuses, and punish our internal foes, inevitable ruin must follow."

"Nos amis, les ennemis."

"It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend."

"We love him for the enemies he has made."

"Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner."

"Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many."

"Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse."

"Pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant."

"Our enemies will tell the rest with pleasure."

"He has no enemy, you say; My friend your boast is poor, He who hath mingled in the fray Of duty that the brave endure Must have made foes. If he has none Small is the work that he has done. He has hit no traitor on the hip; Has cast no cup from perjured lip; Has never turned the wrong to right; Has been a coward in the fight."

"Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami; Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi."

"None but yourself who are your greatest foe."

"My nearest And dearest enemy."

"The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side."

"His enemies shall lick the dust."

"Pour tromper un rival l'artifice est permis; On peut tout employer contre ses ennemis."

"If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head."

"Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me."

"One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good."

"Le corps d'un ennemi mort sent toujours bon."

"Je vais, combattre les ennemis de votre majeste, et je vous laisse au milieu des miens."

"Fas est et ab hoste doceri."

"Les dons d'un ennemi leur semblainte trop à craindre."