Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elliott Abrams

The Iranians don't want the same thing we do in Iraq, not really; they want to control Iraq... the Ayatollah hates the United States; the Iranians are enemies of the United States.

Henry Link

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time.

Youssef Ibrahim

They're learning they have many enemies over there.

Don Piatt

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

George Foreman

My friends know that they're my friends - even my enemies know that they're my friends.

Henry IV

I had rather be plundered by my enemies than by my friends.

Charlie Morris

When you stand up and tell the truth, you make enemies.

Bruce Feirstein

Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.

Thomas Jefferson

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Edmund Burke

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Albert Pike

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

Richard Cobden

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

Mark Skousen

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

Mark Twain

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

Chris Rock

You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack.

Winston Churchill

It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

Vince Vaughn

The message of individual liberty and peace is contagious.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Liberty is the breath of progress.

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Adam Smith

We want the public to be more engaged.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Michelle Williams

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

Glen Richardson

I am very pleased. This is a win for public schools.

Romesh Wadhwani

I don't want to take a company public and not have it do extremely well and fail the public shareholder.

Gary Peck

If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Bertrand Russell

War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left

Carl von Clausewitz

War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. ... war is the realm of chance. No other human activity gives it greater scope; no other has such incessant and varied dealings with this intruder. Chance makes everything more uncertain and interferes with the whole course of events.

Carl von Clausewitz

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

Carl von Clausewitz

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

Carl von Clausewitz

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

Carl von Clausewitz

If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success.

Carl von Clausewitz

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.