Enemy quotes

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.” Rush Limbaugh

“The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.” Henry Miller

“Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.” Henry Miller

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” James Madison

“No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.” Niccolo Machiavelli

“Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.” Joel Osteen

“There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.” Ron Paul

“I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.” Chuck Palahniuk

“No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.” Colin Powell

“Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.” Colin Powell

“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.” Thomas Paine

“It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.” Thomas Paine

“Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.” Mitt Romney

“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.” Ronald Reagan

“I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.” Bertrand Russell

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” William Blake

“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.” William Blake

“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.” Francis Bacon

“Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is.” Jon Stewart

“One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.” Jonathan Swift

“If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” Desmond Tutu

“Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.” Desmond Tutu

“One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.” Edmund Burke

“Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.” Frank Sinatra

“Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.” Henri Nouwen

“Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.” Gilbert Parker