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“...Jabotinsky insisted that all energies be expended to force the Congress to join the boycott movement. Nothing less than a 'merciless fight' would be acceptable, cried Jabotinsky. 'The present Congress is duty bound to put the Jewish problem in Germany before the entire world...(We [Jews] must) destroy, destroy, destroy them, not only with the boycott, but politically, supporting all existing forces against them to isolate Germany from the civilized world...our enemy [Germany] must be destroyed.”

World Problem Would Be Fighting Energy Force Enemy Movement Duty Bounds Congress Jew Destroyed Germany Civilized Acceptable Cried Boycott

Author:Ze'ev Jabotinsky

“One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.”

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity'”

Force Enemy Achieve Movement Victory Mass Gravity Hub Center Of Gravity

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.”

Should Has Beens Country Law Force Enemy

Author:Louis Bonaparte

“In any problem where an opposing force exists and cannot be regulated, one must foresee and provide for alternative courses. Adaptability is the law which governs survival in war as in life ... To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it; the best chance of overcoming such obstruction is to have a plan that can be easily varied to fit the circumstances met.”

War Problem Law Courses Force Chance Enemy Plans Military Fit Circumstances Mets Survival Overcoming Accounts Practicals Alternatives Opposing Adaptability Obstruction

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.”

Firsts Mean Ends Might Force Moral Enemy Air Economic Achieve Military Possibility Direct Destruction Opposition Centre Battlefields Air Force Indirect Air Power Hopping

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect.”

Lying Force Enemy Greater Cutting Effects Military Strategic Cutting Off

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.”

Knows Men Self Reason Feelings Light Desire Force Born Powerful Enemy Anger Blow Superiors Heat Internals Betray Self Control Inferiors Uncontrollable

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.”

Men World War America Force Enemy Military Weakness Europe Army War Of The Worlds Fewer World War I Aggression Uniforms Nazi Pearls Invited Harbors Pearl Harbor Attack

Author:Frank Gaffney

“The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.”

Force Christ Lord Enemy Supreme Chiefs Our Lord Commanders Jerusalem Lucifer Commander In Chief Babylon

Book:The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Source: The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

“Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you.”

Should Mean War Force Loses Enemy Sight Surprise Protected Maxims

Book:Napoleon's Military Maxims

Source: Napoleon's Military Maxims

“I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them... and as I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of your life.”

“Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective - taking over the South by force - could not be achieved.”

Has Beens War Force Enemy South Objectives Recognition Vietnam Vietnam War Annihilation Hanoi

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“In the American hemisphere the cause of freedom and independence has continued to prevail, and if signalized by none of those splendid triumphs which had crowned with glory some of the preceding years it has only been from the banishment of all external force against which the struggle had been maintained. The shout of victory has been superseded by the expulsion of the enemy over whom it could have been achieved.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Force Causes Enemy Struggle Victory Glory Independence Triumph Could Have Been Splendid Hemisphere Expulsion Banishment External Forces

Book:John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.”

Force Enemy Nurse Guests

Book:Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series

Source: Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series

“Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.”

Force Enemy Cry Weakness Selfishness Hypocrisy Cowardice Exterior

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.'”

Ifs Said Ends Whole Today Force Enemy Winner Commanders Pompey

Author:Plutarch

“When I assumed command of the Pacific Fleet in 31 December, 1941; our submarines were already operating against the enemy, the only units of the Fleet that could come to grips with the Japanese for months to come. It was to the Submarine Force that I looked to carry the load until our great industrial activity could produce the weapons we so sorely needed to carry the war to the enemy. It is to the everlasting honor and glory of our submarine personnel that they never failed us in our days of peril.”

War Force Enemy Produce Months Needed Honor Activity Weapons Glory Command Load Units Everlasting Peril December Pacific Personnel Submarines

Author:Chester W. Nimitz

“The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.”

“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.”

Want Should Doe War States Fighting Courses Force Nations United Enemy Principles United States Highest Standards Regard Conventions Armed Forces Geneva Geneva Convention

Author:John Yoo

“Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having been marginalized for three decades by the establishment media - have made their own, almost without effort. It's an alternative reality (unlike 'meat-space' we live in) in which - exactly like intelligence, bravery, or virtue - the human capacity for violence is not additive, and in which it's impossible to initiate force against anybody.”

“Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!”

Thinking Action Force Enemy Worst Projects Tasks Election Managers Fragile Procrastination Momentum Implications Deadline Project Management Worst Enemy Election Day

Book:The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every

Source: The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every

“A beautiful country is a dream-like illusion. It is senseless to cling to it. Unless the inner forces of negative emotions are conquered, strife with outer enemies will never end.”

Ends Country Dream Beautiful Force Emotion Enemy Illusion Negative Strife Negative Emotions Beautiful Country

Author:Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“the New Englander landed on a stony, barren tract, and a large share of his strength during two centuries has gone to force a living out of it. Hence he has come to regard economy - a necessary unpleasant quality at best - as the chief of virtues. He has cultivated habits which verge on closeness in dealing with food, and with the expression of feeling, and even - his enemies think - with feeling itself.”

Thinking Two Feelings Force Quality Enemy Economy Gone Virtue Share Century Expression Habit Regard Chiefs Barren Verge Closeness Thrift Expression Of Feeling

Author:Rebecca Harding Davis

“people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.”

People Force Change Enemy Greater Genius Habit Capable Profound Cowardice Metamorphosis

Book:Saturday's Child: A Memoir

Source: Saturday's Child: A Memoir

“If you take a look at Afghan history, usually they have united to defend against an outside enemy, and as soon as that's accomplished, they turn and start killing each other. This internal instability is a constant invitation to outside forces to come in. I have to think that after the awful years of the Taliban, most Afghans would want to remain at peace, and get the benefits of the new freedom they've found. But I can't be sure that old habits won't reassert themselves.”

“With luck we will be able to repulse the invaders before they land. At any rate, I can say that we will be able to destroy the major part of an invading force. That is, we will be able to inflict extremely heavy damage on the enemy.”

I Can Able Force Enemy Land Majors Luck Rate Heavy Damage Invaders Invading

Author:Yoshijiro Umezu

“From the empty grave of Jesus the enemies of the cross turn away in unconcealable dismay. Those whom the force of no logic can convince, and whose hearts are steeled against the appeal of almighty love from the cross itself, quail before the irresistible power of this simple fact. Christ has risen from the dead! After two thousand years of the most determined assault upon the evidence which demonstrates it, that fact stands. And so long as it stands Christianity, too, must stand as the one supernatural religion.”

“Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south.”

Ifs Giving Two Action Force Loses Ability Enemy Conditions Fronts Demand Draws South Defeat Commit Contribution Being The Best Zone Division Offensive Units Tanks

Author:Aleksandr Vasilevsky

“If we enjoy the benefits of peace, it is only because we have an excellent armed force and a fine socialist economy. Let us exert all efforts so that our further development may be strong and mighty, so that our numerous enemies may think well and long before they decide to attack our fatherland, and so that if they attack, they will quickly regret it.”

Ifs Thinking Wells May Long Strong Force Enjoy Effort Enemy Economy Regret Fine Development Benefits Excellent Socialist Armed Forces Fatherland Socialist Economy

Author:Kliment Voroshilov

“The character of the tribunes was, in every respect, different from that of the consuls. The appearance of the former was modest and humble; but their persons were sacred and inviolable. Their force was suited rather for opposition than for action. They were instituted to defend the oppressed, to pardon offences, to arraign the enemies of the people, and, when they judged it necessary, to stop, by a single word, the whole machine of government.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours.”

Force Powerful Steps Enemy Intelligent Active Saved Recognition

Book:Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way

Source: Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way

“We are organising our enemies into a formidable force, we are The US public has turned against the war, the Republicans and Democrats have turned against the war. And so when the American public turns against the war and the Congress turns against the war, it suggests that Americans feel we cannot win that war in those conditions. So the Iraqi Commission says, "Well, we can't win this war militarily, we need to reassess potential allies." There's Syria, there's Iran.”

Needs Feels Wells War Turns Winning Force Enemy Conditions Republican Democrat Congress Iran Allies Syria Formidable Can't Win

Author:Jesse Jackson

“Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.”

Kind Force Powerful Enemy Power Absolutes Blind Defeat Conviction Tongue Buried Royalty Admission Converting Absolute Power

Author:Albert Camus

“Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches of Power.”

War Age Force Liberty Enemy Dangerous Branches Executives Testimony

Book:James Madison's

Source: James Madison's

“Lenin, Stalin, and Rakosi recognized that a renewed and purified Christianity was the only force that could move the masses as powerfully as the Marxist ideal could. They attacked it as the enemy that it was and is.”

Christian Moving Force Religious Christianity Enemy Mass Ideals Marxist

Book:Inspirational Writings of Charles Colson

Source: Inspirational Writings of Charles Colson

“The first and most important rule to observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. The second rule is to concentrate our power as much as possible against that section where the chief blows are to be delivered and to incur disadvantages elsewhere, so that our chances of success may increase at the decisive point. The third rule is never to waste time. Finally, the fourth rule is to follow up our successes with the utmost energy. Only pursuit of the beaten enemy gives the fruits of victory.”

Giving Firsts May Important Use Energy Force Chance Enemy Victory Waste Thirds Increase Fruit Blow Pursuit Chiefs Wasting Time Elsewhere Fourth Beaten Sections Disadvantages Follow Up

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.”

Source: The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802