#enemy

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#deterrence #dictator #enemy #friend #made

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#enemy #friend #greatest #know #you

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy. ↗

— Tertullian

#enemy #engenders #hatred #soon #truth

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#enemy #far #friend #happiness #just

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy. ↗

— David Hackworth

#detail #enemy #every #hence #kind

After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#available #back #between #british #bureaucratic

I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement. ↗

— King Hussein I

#day #enemy #hurt #i #in the past

The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity. ↗

— George Orwell

#political-correctness #enemy

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#again #autonomous #back #born #capacity

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed. ↗

— Anne Rice

#bibliophiles #book-lovers #willful-ignorance #zealotry #enemy