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• Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes;
  To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes.
  For here though death doth end their misery,
  I'll there begin their endless tragedy.

  Thomas Kyd

  Tragedy, Haste, Ease

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• The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  People, Peril, Nations

  Charles Evans Hughes (1910). “Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government”

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• [T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Political, Constitution, Amendments

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• The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It dispels myths promulgated by both friends and foes and persuasively traces the conflicting paths that American thinkers indebted to Strauss have taken.

  William Galston

  Book, Taken, Political

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• Love is a funny thing, isn't it? The presence of it can bring you to save a foe, the absence of it can make you hurt your own flesh.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Hurt, Love Is, Funny Things

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• There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.

  James F. Cooper

  War, Destiny, Men

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• The real miracle here, or stunning thing to me, is that Angela Merkel thought that she could talk on a cellphone and no one would be listening to her, allies or foes.

  Joe Trippi

  Real, Nsa, Miracle

  "NSA spying: 20 great quotes" by Jose Delreal and Nick Gass, www.politico.com. October 28, 2013.

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• Remember that all is One... and what you do to your neighbor, your friend or your foe, is a reflection of what you think of your Creator.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Reflection, Thinking

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• When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

  Rudyard Kipling

  War, Gun, Devil

  Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.5108, Delphi Classics

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• Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Forever, Enemy, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1083, Library of Alexandria

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• The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Rights, Government

  Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1937). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: to April 30, 1814”

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• The mind can be our best friend and advocate in getting what we want in life, or it can pull the brakes on and be a nasty little foe – the choice is yours – choose your attitude.

  Rachael Bermingham

  Attitude, Choices, Mind

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• Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling throughout our society that religious belief is outmoded, or downright impossible, in a scientific age. I don't agree. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if people in this so-called 'scientific age' knew a bit more about science than many of them actually do, they'd find it easier to share my views.

  John Polkinghorne

  Religious, Knowledge, Science

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• We are friendly to our country, and when we speak of the flag of our Union, we love it, and we love the rights the Constitution guarantees to every citizen. What did the Prophet Joseph say? When the Constitution shall be tottering we shall be the people to save it from the hand of the foe.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Country, Freedom, America

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• Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high meetings together, Christians thus could not keep their own disagreements within the bounds of civil language; their continual quarrels required the intervention of the civil authorities; and all this was well known and noted by friends and foes alike.

  Ramsay MacMullen

  Christian, Teaching, Devil

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• Our Founding Fathers deliberately used the Bible as their guide. They tried to ensure that schools, likewise, use the Bible to teach Christian self-government, the true source of liberty. These Scriptural principles were so instilled in the minds of our forefathers that they would fight and die for liberty. This divine fight, however, is not easily won our arch foe is ruthless in enslaving mankind.

  Richard S. Wheeler

  Christian, Father, School

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• Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

  Alexander Pope

  Friendship, Men, Flow

  Alexander Pope (1847). “Poetical Works”, p.299

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• Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

  Alexander Pope

  Friendship, Merit, Praise

  Homerus, Alexander Pope (1718). “The Iliad of Homer”

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• If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Honesty, Military, Battle

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• Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Love, Tolerance, Triumph

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• Friends now fast sworn,
  Whose double bosoms seems to wear one heart,
  Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise
  Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love,
  Unseparable, shall within this hour,
  On a dissension of a doit, break out
  To bitterest enmity; so fellest foes,
  Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep
  To take the one the other, by some chance,
  Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends
  And interjoin their issues.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Heart, Sleep

  William Shakespeare, Lee Bliss (2000). “Coriolanus”, p.221, Cambridge University Press

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• Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Happiness, Race, Roots

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1822). “Queen Mab”, p.112

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• The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was another cunning stroke on the part of the foe, the fresh battle toward which he was carrying ancient wounds.

  William Faulkner

  Running, Air, Shadow

  William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company

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• And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  Sleep, Snow, Welcome

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2016). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913”, p.278, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The U.S. should never get involved where we have no clear national interest. We should not intervene militarily in a country like Syria, where we can’t separate friend from foe and might end up arming the very people who hate us the most.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Hate, People

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from Jul 19, 2013

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