“We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction”

“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.”

“The furious behaviour of an angry man is more likely to exasperate us against himself than against his enemies.”

“One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.”

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

"Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?"

"Back to the army again, sergeant, / Back to the army again, / Out o' the cold an' the rain."

"Never offend an enemy in a small way."

“I am only the enemy of oppression and betrayal.”

"After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers."

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

"The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age."

"Nothing is such an enemy to accuracy of judgment as a coarse discrimination; a want of such classification and distribution as the subject admits of."

"Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better."

"One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy."

"Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer."

"We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard."

"Though many of the poor have come to see the affluent middle class as its enemy, that class actually stands between the poor and the real powers in this society - the administrative octopus with its head in Washington, the conglomerates, the military complex."

"I was really hyperactive as a kid and no one knew how or where I got all this energy."

"Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success."

"Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes."

"Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride."

"Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride"

"It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same."