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“Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. ”
— Jean de La Fontaine
“Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. ”
— Jean de La Fontaine
“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks. ”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“A friend is nothing but a known enemy. ”
— Kurt Cobain
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”
— Helen Keller
“Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.”
— Warren Buffett
“Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.”
— Warren Buffett
“The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.”
— William James
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.”
— Rush Limbaugh
“The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.”
— Henry Miller
“Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.”
— Henry Miller
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
— James Madison
“No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
“There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.”
— Ron Paul
“I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
“Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.”
— Colin Powell
“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
— Thomas Paine
“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.”
— Thomas Paine
“Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.”
— Mitt Romney
“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.”
— Ronald Reagan
“I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.”
— Bertrand Russell
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
— William Blake
“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.”
— William Blake
“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.”
— Francis Bacon
“Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is.”
— Jon Stewart
“One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.”
— Jonathan Swift
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