#enemy

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory. ↗

— Douglas Haig

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A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

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The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. ↗