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"Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired."
"This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch me—oh, god!"
"Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger from their folly, not from their wisdom; their weakness is what fills us with apprehension, not their strength."
"A free press isn't the enemy of America; it's a big part of why makes America great."
"Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies."
"To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity."
"If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours."
"Indifference was our greatest enemy."
"He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem."
"Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy."
"Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field."
"I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies."
"[But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young."
"A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power."
"Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself."
"The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone."
"There are a lot of French actresses who just hate me now. I've made enemies."
"It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging."
"He is many things - dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy - but he comes from an age when a man's word was indeed precious."
"There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation."
