I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.
I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect.
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.
We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.
I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.
Adding to your list of enemies is never a sound strategy, yet ISIS' ferocious campaign against the Shia, Kurds, Yazidis, Christians, and Muslims who don't precisely share its views has united every ethnic and religious group in Syria and Iraq against them.
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
The situation is not about Hosni Mubarak, but the reality is now about Egypt, its present, the future of its sons, all Egyptians are in the same trench, therefore, we should continue our national dialogue That have already started in the spirit of groups but not enemies.
Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
The Emergency Banking Act reached back in time to amend the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, which had originally been intended to criminalize economic intercourse between American citizens and declared enemies of the United States.
It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.
I came out when I was 17 - coming out in middle or high school is one of the most difficult things that anyone could experience. I wouldn't wish it on my enemies.
Greetings and death to our enemies.
Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not.
The Home Guards are required to come in at once and deliver up their arms, those who fail to do so will be regarded as enemies of the Government and treated accordingly.
A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
Obama sought a strategy of accommodating our enemies, even if they weren't so willing to accommodate us.
But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends.
The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
It is not oil or the environment, it is oil and the environment. We are living in the same world. We are not enemies.
I don't think anybody deserves to be defined totally by his enemies.
Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn.
From the preemptive strike that destroyed Egypt's air force during the Six-Day War, to the daring raid on Entebbe, to using all available means to slow the Iranian nuclear program, Israelis have combined strength with ingenuity to keep the country's enemies at bay.
Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
Reason and love are sworn enemies.
