#adversaries

We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#bargaining #doing #giving #iran #juvenile

The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#both-sides #opponents #politics #understanding #courage

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#adversary #battle #strategy #war #strategy

You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting. ↗

— Cyrus Vance

#against #beyond #disagreeing #fighting #interests

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#adversaries #arsenal #arsenals #courage #formidable

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries. ↗

— Darrell Royal

#found #game #i #played #players

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries. ↗

— Henry Wotton

#confound #puzzle #tell #truth #your

The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#closed #compromise #conciliation #conflict #dignity

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#almost #course #depends #effectively #entirely

Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better? ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#against #better #each #even #magazine