Engaged Enemy

Famous quotes containing the words engaged and/or enemy:

“I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Liberalism—it is well to recall this today—is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)