A Quote by Eric Hoffer
A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.
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An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.
It is a tough choice. In war, people die. But when we refuse to confront the enemy, we will face the enemy in New York and Washington, as we did on 9-11. As for responsiblity, of course we stand by our decision to go to war on Iraq. President Kennedy said that friend and foe alike should know where America stands.
President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.
It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.
However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.
In Vietnam, we took a hill and defeated the enemy; then we retreated and let the enemy take over.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
If an organ gets a "dis-ease" you want to care for it like a wounded friend, not an enemy who's turned against you.
[Negro] should realize that he is living in a war zone, and he is at war with an enemy that is as vicious and criminal and inhuman as any war-making country has ever been.
Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war...war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil.
If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.
An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.
If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.
It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage.
You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, 'cause if you're not a friend to yourself, you're an enemy to yourself and if someone's a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.
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