War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
George Washington
WarViolenceAccomplishEnemyWill
Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.
Douglas Brinkley
FocusFireFreeHandsEnemyPotato
I saw the waterboarding device in Cambodia's notorious Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh and did not see another until I was strapped down on an identical one at SERE. Waterboarding was administered as a 'stress demonstrator' to show that an enemy could make one say anything. And one does.
Malcolm Nance
StressPrisonDownEnemySaySee
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer
YouEnemyYourObservingDiscover
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.
Chester W. Nimitz
WarEnemySoilNavyCarryFunction
Your enemies love your failures, sure. But what they love even more is to see you brought so low by those failures that you never get up again. Sometimes enemies aren't even external. Often, our biggest critic, our greatest enemy, is ourselves.
Kameron Hurley
LoveYouEnemySometimesNeverSee
The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldn't live up to their name. I was the singer in the band and as long as I was enjoying myself I would keep on working with the band. But it got to be rather nasty once the big money showed up - things started to turn toxic.
Eric Burdon
LiveMyselfMoneyNameLongEnemy
Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.
Chrissie Hynde
FriendBestBest FriendArtistEnemy
I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.
Ian Mckellen
ReligionMeTreatEnemySeeJews
As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'
Duke of Wellington
HopeDayEnemySaidNamesLord
Music is unique because you can get behind enemy lines a little bit, get into people's houses and into their heads, on their stereos, and win hearts and minds.
Conor Oberst
MusicPeopleWinYouUniqueEnemy
I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.
Gary Coleman
EnemyWorstFirstYearsGiveWould
Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group.
Fidel Castro
PowerPeopleEnemyGroupOwnPlanet
In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.
Jim Mattis
WorkEnemyVoteLineGets
Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.
David Hackworth
DieDownEnemyDeadKnowingLine
I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.
Chuck Palahniuk
I AmEnemyWorstCauseAmUpsets
In the battle for Kobane on the Syrian border, everyone talks about the enemy - IS - and the frightening ideas that drive them. No one talks about the Kurdish defenders and what inspires them.
Adam Curtis
IdeasDriveBorderBattleEnemy
By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line.
John Byng
GreatTimePastEnemyDistanceNew
If I must fight, I'll fight; but I prefer not to spit at my enemy beforehand.
Charles Lindbergh
FightEnemyMustSpitPrefer
Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
Bryant H. McGill
KnowledgeControlEnemyAuthority
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund Burke
GoodGood And EvilEvilEnemy
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
LoveEnemyNeverForgiveEnjoyment
I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!
Blake Shelton
HomeBackEnemyPicturesCalifornia
Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.
August Bebel
EnemyLibertyCivilization
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