"They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies."
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"Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous."
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"This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . . In these disturbing and distressing times, surely it's cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than it is to defend yourself against them..Justice is the surest way to get peace."
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"The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -"
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"Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs."
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"The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature."
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"If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self"
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"Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him."
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"Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy."
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"Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions."
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"Nothing brings you together like a common enemy."
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"It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong."
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"The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today's earnings for the future. Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old."
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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."
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"He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy."
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"The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence."
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"Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us and strengthens himself; when we resist temptation, it strengthens the Saints and weakens the enemy."
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"We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within."
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"Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights; it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights, a government is man's deadliest enemy. It is not as protection against private actions, but against governmental actions that the Bill of Rights was written."
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"...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason."
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