The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
And, to be true, an enemy's lair is an enemy's lair, no matter how comfortable or fancy it might appear.
The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
We must be certain that we all realize that our enemy is not an enemy that is located in one single place. There are terrorist cells all around the globe.
From the first day we have been fighting the wrong enemy; our common enemy is religion which dictates upon us division and partition.
In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
Nothing you do for them will harm the enemy, the real enemy, it will only draw in more support for them as a party.
Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
You can always make enemies of your friends,' said Sumael. 'Making friends of your enemies is harder labor.
Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends. Discerning the two is a life's work.
I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me.
Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.
The only thing more dangerous than your enemy knowing how powerful you are, is your enemy not knowing how powerful you are
