Best enemy & nations Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“On a day when Osama bin Laden again threatened the United States and our allies, it is disturbing to realize that John Kerry neither recognizes nor understands the murderous ideology of our enemies and the threat they pose to our nation.”

States Nations Realizing United Enemy United States Threat Ideology Allies Threatened Disturbing Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden John Kerry

Author:Marc Racicot

“Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.”

Nations Enemy Mountain Kindred

Book:The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

Source: The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

“Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.”

States Moments Seems Government Given Nations Causes Interest United Opinion Enemy Break United States Society Consequence Direct Weak Defense Insignificant Trifles Weak Points

Author:James F. Cooper

“OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph."”

Nations Enemy Honor Ancient Triumph Rome Formal Definite Pageant Ancient Rome Ovation

Book:The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)

Source: The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)

“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.”

Made Country Nations Easy Realizing Enemy Ready Blame Collaborators Scapegoat

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against the ambition of kings, the exclamation should be directed against the principle of such governments; and instead of seeking to reform the individual, the wisdom of a nation should apply itself to reform the system.”

Men Should Government Individual Nations Enemy Principles Kings Ambition Seeking Mediums Reform Exclamation Systems Of Government

Book:Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free. In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food.”

“The United States of course wants to follow the highest standards of conduct with regard to enemy combatants who follow the rules of war. It should and does follow the Geneva Conventions scrupulously when fighting the armed forces of other nations that have signed the Geneva Conventions or follow their principles.”

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Author:John Yoo

“I am ever unwilling that [peace] should be disturbed as long as the rights and interests of the nations can be preserved. But whensoever hostile aggressions on these require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.”

World Should Long War Nations Interest Enemy Rights Duty Brave Convince Aggression Hostile Resorts Disturbed Unwilling Just Friends

Book:Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

“Given the scope of these programs, it's understandable that many would be concerned about issues related to privacy. But what's difficult to understand is the motivation of somebody who intentionally would seek to warn the nation's enemies of lawful programs created to protect the American people. And I hope that he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

People Would Be Law Motivation Given Nations Difficult Enemy Issues Protect Concerned Program Related Privacy Scope Nsa

Author:Mitch McConnell

“The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the formulas of nations at war, where any heinousness is justified on the grounds that the enemy is either an inferior [part of the] species or really not human at all.”

Humans War Certain Nations Sex Enemy Bears Battle Authority Species Males Formulas Inferiors Justified Accompany Resemblance Imposition Rationale Battle Of The Sexes

Book:Sexual Politics

Source: Sexual Politics

“In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy. They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. ... The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.”

“There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory.”

Nations Hours Enemy Victory Obeying Dishonour

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“We seek friendly relations with all nations. Any nation can be our friend without being any other nation's enemy.”

Nations Enemy Relation Friendly

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1971

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1971

“American nation will not wait to be attacked again. We will defend our freedom and we will take the fight to the enemy.”

Fighting Nations Waiting Enemy

Author:George W. Bush

“The laws of war, that restrain the exercise of national rapine and murder, are founded on two principles of substantial interest: the knowledge of the permanent benefits which may be obtained by a moderate use of conquest, and a just apprehension lest the desolation which we inflict on the enemy's country may be retaliated on our own. But these considerations of hope and fear are almost unknown in the pastoral state of nations.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“I don't think we should be engaged in nation-building. It's not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try to turn Iraq into Switzerland. It is the military's job to hunt down and kill our enemies, to kill ISIS before they murder American citizens and they wage jihad.”

Thinking Should Trying Jobs Turns Nations Enemy Military Building Citizens Murder Down And Democratic Iraq Engaged Hunts Isis Utopia American Citizens Jihad Switzerland Nation Building

Author:Ted Cruz

“The war against Russia is an important chapter in the German nation's struggle for existence. [...] The objective of this battle must be the demolition of present-day Russia and must therefore be conducted with unprecedented severity. Every military action must be guided in planning and execution by an iron resolution to exterminate the enemy remorselessly and totally. In particular, no adherents of the contemporary Russian Bolshevik system are to be spared.”

“Nothing frightens the 'Jews' more than a perfect unity in others: the unity of feeling in a movement, in a people. That is why they will always be for 'democracy' which has but one advantage, and that one for the nation's enemy. For democracy will break up the unity and spirit of a people.”

People Feelings Spirit Nations Perfect Enemy Break Democracy Movement Advantage Unity Jew

Book:For My Legionaries

Source: For My Legionaries

“Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing their Zeal for the Publick, let it not be against those who are perhaps of the same Family, or at least of the same Religion or Nation, but against those who are the open, professed, undoubted Enemies of their Faith, Liberty, and Country.”

Ifs Country Turns Nations Women Liberty Enemy Virtue Female Shining Nationalism Zeal Provinces

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.”

Men Life Humans Kind May Art Two Earth Nations Cities Enemy Hatred Human Society City Of God

Author:Saint Augustine

“Liberals correctly perceive the Reagan record as their most dangerous enemy. Why? Because what happened during the 1980s - prosperity at home the longest period of peacetime growth in this nation's history, strength abroad - directly contradicts every liberal belief. Bill Clinton has confused many about the 1980s and the Reagan legacy. His patently false mantra states, "The rich got richer, the poor got poorer. The rich didn't pay their fair share, etc."”

States Home Belief Nations Growth Poor Pay Enemy Rich Records Happened Share Dangerous Danger Periods Fairs Bills Clinton Prosperity Legacy Perceive Confused Etc Mantras Fair Share

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being... Almighty God would mercifully interpose and still the rage of war among the nations... He would take this province under His protection, confound the designs and defeat the attempts of its enemies, and unite our hearts and strengthen our hands in every undertaking that may be for the public good, and for our defense and security in this time of danger.”

“From Day One, I've told [my troops] that killing is not wrong if it's for a purpose, if it's to keep your nation free or protect your buddy, one of the most noble things you can do is kill the enemy.”

Ifs Purpose Nations Can Do Enemy Protect Killing Noble Troops Buddy

Author:Douglas A. Zembiec

“What happened to our nation on a September day set in motion the first great struggle of a new century. The enemies who struck us are determined and they are resourceful. They will not be stopped by a sense of decency or a hint of conscience--but they will be stopped.”

Firsts War Nations Enemy Struggle Happened Century Conscience Determined September Decency Hints Resourceful

Author:George W. Bush

“Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation.”

Force Nations Forget Enemy Air Protect Commitment Importance Constitution Army Never Forget Coast Navy Marine Oath Air Force Army Navy Coast Guard

Author:Robin Hayes

“Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends.”

Needs Looks Nations Enemy Identity Depends Conflict Collectives Tribes Separateness

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Our enemies must not deceive themselves-in the 2,000 years of German history known to us, our people have never been more united than today. The Lord of the Universe has treated us so well in the past years that we bow in gratitude to a providence which has allowed us to be members of such a great nation. We thank Him that we also can be entered with honor into the ever-lasting book of German history!”

People Years Wells Book Today Past Universe Nations United Known Lord Enemy Atheism Honor Gratitude Members Treated Lasting Bows Deceiving Providence Great Nations German History

Book:Hitler's Words

Source: Hitler's Words

“A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.”

Nations Sides Lines Enemy Draws Ugly Maps Civilized Good Friend Best Friend Civilized Nations

Author:Thor Heyerdahl

“The United States has been utilizing what may prove to be the most historically inept strategy in the entire history of warfare, in which the enemy nations are occupied while allowing its own territory to be colonized.”

May Has Beens States Nations United Enemy United States Prove Strategy Allowing Territory Warfare Utilizing

Author:Theodore Beale

“Thus, Protestantism will always stand up for the advancement of all Germans as such, as long as matters of inner purity or national deepening as well as German freedom are involved, since all these things have a firm foundation in its own being; but it combats with the greatest hostility any attempt to rescue the nation from the embrace of its most mortal enemy, since its attitude toward the Jews just happens to be more or less dogmatically established.”

Wells Long Matter Happens Nations Attitude Enemy Involved Foundation Embrace Jew Mortals Firm Purity Combat Rescue Hostility Advancement Protestantism Mortal Enemies Firm Foundation

Author:Adolf Hitler

“If the German nation wants to end a state of affairs that threatens its extermination in Europe, it must not fall into the error of the pre-War period and make enemies of God and the world; it must recognize the most dangerous enemy and strike at him with all its concentrated power. And if this victory is obtained through sacrifices elsewhere, the coming generations of our people will not condemn us.”

People Ifs World Want War Ends States Fall Nations Enemy Generations Sacrifice Dangerous Victory Periods Europe Errors Affair Strikes Elsewhere Extermination

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“We have carried out the attempted premeditated murder of an entire nation. We were caught in that criminal act and have been obstructed. Now we have to suffer the punishment.... In the Balkan Wars, Serbia not only doubled its territory, but also its external enemies.”

Has Beens War Suffering Nations Enemy Murder Caught Criminals Punishment Territory Serbia Balkans

Author:Dimitrije Tucovic

“The fact is ... that when totalitarian nations like China and Saudi Arabia play ball with U.S. business interests, we like them just fine. But when Venezuela's freely elected president threatens powerful corporate interests, the Bush administration treats him as an enemy.”

Play Facts Nations President Interest Powerful Enemy Fine Treats Balls China Administration Corporate Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Venezuela

Book:Playing President: My Close Ecounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush

Source: Playing President: My Close Ecounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush

“Born enemies don't fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other by their skins, their language, their smell; always jealous of each other, always hating each other; they're not the ones who fight. You will find the real antagonists in nations fate has groomed and made ready for the same war.”

Made War Real Hate Fighting Language Nations Born Enemy Fate Ready Skins Smell Jealous Antagonist

Author:Jean Giraudoux

“As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.”

Want Nations Enemy Unity

Author:Margaret Chase Smith

“The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is still threatened with a repetition of those calamities, which formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“We salute our veterans of Pearl Harbor and World War II, whose sacrifices saved democracy during a dark hour. In their memory, a new generation of our Armed Forces goes forward against new enemies in a new era. Once again, we pledge to defend freedom, secure our homeland, and advance peace around the world. Americans have been tested before, and our Nation will triumph again.”

“It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.”

Nations Views Enemy Greater Neighbor Opposition Combat

Book:A time of war, a time of peace

Source: A time of war, a time of peace

“The enemies of liberty and our country should make no mistake: America remains engaged in the world by history and by choice, shaping a balance of power that favors freedom. We will defend our allies and our interests. We will show purpose without arrogance. We will meet aggression and bad faith with resolve and strength. And to all nations, we will speak for the values that gave our nation birth... an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.”

“I am convinced that 1941 will be the crucial year of a great New Order in Europe. The world shall open up for everyone. Privileges for individuals, the tyranny of certain nations and their financial rulers shall fall. And last of all this year will help to provide the foundations of a real understanding among peoples, and with it the certainty of conciliation among nations. . . . Those nations who are still opposed to us will some day recognize the greater enemy within. Then they will join us in a combined front, a front against Jewish exploitation and racial degeneration.”

“[The World Trade Center and the Pentagon] have drawn, like gathered lightning, the anger of the enemies of civilization. Those enemies are always out there.... Americans are slow to anger but mighty when angry, and their proper anger now should be alloyed with pride. They are targets because of their virtues-principally democracy, and loyalty to those nations which, like Israel, are embattled salients of our virtues in a still-dangerous world.”

World Should Stills Nations Enemy Virtue Democracy Dangerous Pride Civilization Angry Trade Israel Loyalty Target Lightning Pentagon World Trade World Trade Center Dangerous World

Author:George Will

“...Sean Penn claimed to be 'serv[ing] the country' by giving aid and comfort to an enemy about to be attacked by the US. He said it made him feel more patriotic to dissent from the war aims of his nation. It is at least a counterintuitive position. Most people would not instantly grasp how it is more patriotic to always root against America. White supremacists should try claiming that burning crosses is more supportive of civil rights than not burning them.”

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Author:Ann Coulter

“I considered the British as our natural enemies, and as the only nation on earth who wished us ill from the bottom of their souls. And I am satisfied that were our continent to be swallowed up by the ocean, Great Britain would be in a bonfire from one end to the other.”

Soul Ends Would Be Earth Nations Natural Enemy Ocean Bottom Ill British Satisfied Britain Continents Great Britain Bonfire Natural Enemies

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

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