The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.
Timothy Noah
GovernmentPoliticalEnemyConHis
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
Sun Tzu
LeadershipWaitEnemyWillPrudent
In the past, my voice was my enemy.
Marcello Giordani
PastVoiceEnemyIn The Past
Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.
Richard Le Gallienne
FriendScienceEnemySeriousHand
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
MenWiseConquerEnemyNowReason
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
Mao Zedong
CultureArmyEnemyDefeatWithout
I think you should check out 'Battle: Los Angeles' because it really is a sci-fi movie, but it's not. It's not like anything you've seen before. The best way to describe it is it's a war movie that happens to have aliens as the enemy.
Noel Fisher
BestWarThinkBattleYouEnemy
I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.
Stonewall Jackson
I AmAlcoholEnemyMoreAfraidThan
The arguments over the limits that may be put on individuals suspected of sympathising with the enemy have occurred over the centuries. Habeas corpus was suspended during the Napoleonic wars, and Defence Regulation 18b was applied during the Second World War.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
WarWorldLimitsEnemyOverMay
I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.
Richard Francis Burton
TimeMeEnemyMercyWithoutDozen
Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.
Tracy Morgan
FunnyTimeCoolYouEnemySame
I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
Isaac Brock
TimePeopleEnemyJust BecauseRight
Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
EnemyPrivilegeRightGreatest
I grew up on misogynist, devil-worshipping heavy metal music, and then it was groups like The Clash and Public Enemy that reminded me that there were a different set of ideas that could be expressed with great music.
Tom Morello
MusicGreatMeIdeasEnemyHeavy
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller
WiseWorldEnemyWorstNeverOur
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
Montesquieu
WarHelpEnemyFirstTwoAggression
There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.
Roy Jenkins
GoodGreatBestEnemyAlways
Our enemy in Syria is Daesh: it's not about containing but destroying this organisation.
Francois Hollande
EnemySyriaOurAboutDestroying
Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.
Linda Chavez
JanuaryWarEnemyHumanCritics
Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.
Mikheil Saakashvili
EnemyNeedGeorgiaRussiaDoes
Good is often the enemy of best.
Edwin Louis Cole
GoodBestEnemyOften
The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers.
Kelly Miller
StartConfidentGivingArmyEnemy
The president says, 'What difference does it make what you call the enemy?' Are you kidding me? As an intelligence officer, I would never get away with that. I could never say, 'Well, you know, boss, I don't label this enemy that we're facing.'
Michael T. Flynn
IntelligenceBossMeYouEnemyKnow
Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
Ben Jonson
ArtIgnoranceEnemyHath
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