Enemy Quotes
As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on tactics and strategy. The mission of the infantry is to 'close with, and destroy, the enemy.' Our job, in a direct way, is to fight and win wars.
Pete Hegseth
American television host
We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.
Douglas Bader
Douglas Bader
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
Brian Mulroney
Former Prime Minister of Canada
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Ronald Reagan
40th U.S. President
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer
American philosopher
There's a larger conversation we need to have about the role of police officers, their relationship to the people as enemy or executioner, when they're not supposed to be either.
Chance The Rapper
American rapper
Anyone in recovery knows that isolation is the biggest enemy.
Ivan Moody
American singer-songwriter
Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing.
John Bigelow
American lawyer
We all have faults in life. Mine is that I sometimes rely on my athletic ability a little too much. When I'm having success and things are going good, that's the lull that I fall into. It's my worst enemy.
Jason Sehorn
former American football cornerback
Going through heart surgery, being on blood thinners, having been in the hospital is not something you want to go through. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
Jeff Green
American professional basketball player
The United States treated Gaddafi as an enemy due to his support for terrorism against us, until a rapprochement of sorts began under Pres. George W. Bush at the very end of 2003.
Elliott Abrams
American politician and lawyer
There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war.
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator
The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.
Eddie Rickenbacker
American fighter pilot
One never really knows who one's enemy is.
Jurgen Habermas
German philosopher
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
Horatio Nelson
British officer
Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but the Grand Army of the Republic (and further in the past than that: Thomas Jefferson, after all, was derided as 'the Negro President').
Rick Perlstein
American historian
You don't want to make an enemy of Piers Morgan.
Lynne Truss
English author
Saudi Arabia isn't the enemy, but it is a problem. It could make so much positive difference in the Islamic world if it used its status to soothe Sunni-Shiite tensions and encourage tolerance. For a time, under King Abdullah, it seemed that the country was trying to reform, but now under King Salman, it has stalled.
Nicholas Kristof
American journalist
I don't see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the companies are doing studio movies. I'm not tempted to sell out. If I'm going to become well known, I want it to be for something I'm proud of.
Baltasar Kormakur
Icelandic actor
So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.
Pankaj Mishra
Indian essayist
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