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• The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.

  Robert Toombs

  Men, Doors, Dignity

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• No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Light, Enemy

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• If we are faithful in keeping the commandments of God His promises will be fulfilled to the very letter. . . . The trouble is, the adversary of men's souls blinds their minds. He throws dust, so to speak, in their eyes, and they are blinded with the things of this world.

  Heber J. Grant

  Eye, Men, Dust

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• Very simply, the Spirit of Elijah is the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of Elijah will influence anyone who is involved in this work. That, for a young person in the wickedness in the world in which we live today, is one of the greatest safeguards against the temptations of the adversary. The Spirit of Elijah will not only bless you, it will protect you.

  David A. Bednar

  Temptation, Live For Today, Wickedness

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• The cause of freedom, in music as elsewhere, is now very nearly triumphant; but at a time when its adversaries were many and powerful, we can hardly imagine the sacred bridge of liberty kept by a more stalwart trio than Schubert the Armorer, Chopin the Refiner, and Liszt the Thunderer.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Music, Powerful, Bridges

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1873). “Music and Morals”, p.298, London : Strahan

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• They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.

  Chesty Puller

  War, Military, Marine

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• Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Bible, Devil, Roaring

  Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer (2010). “Wild Ride”, p.187, Macmillan

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• And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Taming, Culture

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.410

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• We must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbors. As for the enemies of freedom, those who are potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it; We will not surrender for it, now or ever. We are Americans.

  Ronald Reagan

  Sacrifice, Men, Practice

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Inspiration, Perfect

  Christian Science bk. 1, ch. 5 (1907)

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• May you constantly nourish your testimonies of the gospel that they will be a protection to you against the buffetings of the adversary.

  Thomas S. Monson

  May, Protection, Testimony

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• I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

  Darrell Royal

  Sports, Respect, Player

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• On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

  Frederick Soddy

  Ignorance, Planes, Knowledge And Ignorance

  Frederick Soddy's speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1922.

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• We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Leadership, Iran, Korea

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• Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Girl, Enemy, Magazines

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• The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

  Friedrich Engels

  Order, Use, Speak

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1968). “Selected works [of] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels”

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• Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.

  Richard V. Allen

  Would Be, Rewards, Firsts

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• Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Thinking, Giving, Satisfaction

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.39, University of Georgia Press

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• ...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Perfect, Insanity

  Christian Science bk. 1, ch. 5 (1907)

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• Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Mean

  "Human Action: A Treatise on Economics".

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• We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Time Passing, Time Passes, Passings

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• Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Men, Allies

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• God has not given us the spirit of fear. That comes from the adversary.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Fear, Spirit, Given

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• The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Way, Danger

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.235

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• I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

  Robert Kennedy

  Believe, Government, Long

  Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “A New Day: Robert F. Kennedy”

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