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"We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention, totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression."
"To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape."
"Should the enemy forestall you in occupying a pass, do not go after him if the pass is fully garrisoned, but only if it is weakly garrisoned."
"If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away."
"Without local guides, your enemy employs the land as a weapon against you."
"From a position of this sort, if the enemy is unprepared, you may sally forth and defeat him. But if the enemy is prepared for your coming, and you fail to defeat him, then, return being impossible, disaster will ensue."
"Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence."
"All my enemies are self-appointed."
"Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself."
"We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies."
"It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill."
"My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face. But all I could find there was unhappiness and fear. Fear of my reaction, perhaps. But when a person has lived a life like hers, a life of promiscuity, rootlessness, and substance abuse, resentment and fear tend to replace all reasonable and proper emotions, and the world becomes your enemy."
"Time can be an ally or an enemy."
"The common enemy is the white man."
"Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P"
"You can learn from anyone even your enemy."
"Bear patiently with a rival."
"It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri."
"The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue"
"If you view everyone as your enemies, everyone around you will be your enemies."
