Pastoral Resources

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

Every educated person is a future enemy.

This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.

In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.