Enemies

Famous quotes containing the word enemies:

“Nothing could his enemies do but it rebounded to his infinite advantage,—that is, to the advantage of his cause.... No theatrical manager could have arranged things so wisely to give effect to his behavior and words. And who, think you, was the manager? Who placed the slave-woman and her child, whom he stooped to kiss for a symbol, between his prison and the gallows?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.”
—Max Lerner (b. 1902)

“Our enemies have beat us to the pit.
It is more worthy to leap in ourselves
Than tarry till they push us.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)