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“Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.”

“The ancients, by their system of colonization, made themselves friends all over the known world; the moderns have sought to make subjects, and therefore have made enemies.”

World Made Known Enemy Subjects Colonization

Book:A Treatise on Political Economy: Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

Source: A Treatise on Political Economy: Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

“When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.”

Law Death Forget Enemy Forever Subjects Fixed Mortality Doom Gliding

Book:Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales

Source: Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales

“The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character of Theodosius might furnish the subject of a sincere and ample panegyric. The wisdom of his laws and the success of his arms rendered his administration respectable in the eyes both of his subjects and of his enemies. He loved and practised the virtues of domestic life, which seldom hold their residence in the palaces of kings.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)

“The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.”

War Enemy Subjects Kings Distress

Author:Samuel Johnson

“And while I'm on the subject, let me say something about Harry Potter. [Gravels her voice.] Warlocks are enemies of God!! [Back to normal screech.] And I don't care what kind of hero they are, they're an enemy of God. And had it been in the Old Testament, Harry Potter woulda been put to death! [Applause.] You don't make heroes out of warlocks. This is the generation that's gonna stand for purity, an' righteousnesss, an' holiness, an' you're gonna serve the lord all the days of your life.”

Kind Care Voice Lord Enemy Generations Subjects Hero Normal Let Me Don't Care Scary I Don't Care Purity Holiness Harry Potter Testament Potters Applause Old Testament Warlocks Gravel

Author:Becky Fischer

“You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.”

Firsts Use Order Asks Answers Steps Enemy Subjects Mastery First Steps Arrangements Classification Simplification

Author:Thomas E. Mann

“I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.”

Christian Enemy Written Subjects

Author:David Hume

“The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.”

Government Enemy Subjects Formidable

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

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