Pastoral Resources

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

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.

The last of our enemies is laid low.

Greetings and death to our enemies.

And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on.

Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.

Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.