Charles Evans Hughes
Politician, Lawyer
"The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope."
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Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled."
Brian Jacques
Author
"Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?"
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Theologian
"So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work."
Euripides
Playwright
"Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with."
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"It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them."
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"None but yourself who are your greatest foe."
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"Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy."
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"The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!"
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"An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe."
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"I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works."
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"Reality is always the foe of famous names."
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"Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy."
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"It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe."
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"Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist."
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"Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe."
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"Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends."
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"Fire, fear, foes! Awake!"
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"The battle is over when the foe has fallen."
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"The person who builds a character makes foes."
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"Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes."
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