Quotes on Adversaries

The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling the forces of victory, and of shrewdly calculating difficulties, dangers and distances, constitutes the test of a great general.

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.