#enemy

We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#after #apart #arm #barrels #behind

I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#been #communism #enemy #i #i love

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#enemy #mouths #sent #sign #their

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction. ↗

— Guy Verhofstadt

#bring #conviction #enemy #find #fire

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.' ↗

— Duke of Wellington

#enemy #generals #his #hope #i

I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#enemy #found #i #index #making

Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#always #any #contained #enemy #hatred

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good. ↗

— Roy Jenkins

#best #dangers #enemy #good #great

I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who would bring on us a slow Auschwitz - not with gas, but with knives and hatchets. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#auschwitz #bring #deadly #elections #enemy

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#common enemy #emotional #enemy #humanity #many