“I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger.”
Daniel Webster
“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.”
Abraham Lincoln
“When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.”
William Shakespeare
“The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!”
Dorothy Parker
“Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“"Be he foe or friend, be he foul or clean, Brood of Morgoth, or Bright Vala, Elda or Maia or Aftercomer, Man yet unborn upon Middle-earth, Neither law, nor love, nor league of swords, dread, nor danger, not doom Itself shall defend him from Feanor and Feanor's kin whoso hideth or hordeth, or in hand taketh, finding keepeth, or afar casteth a Silmaril. This swear we all: Death we will deal him ere day's ending. Woe unto the world's end! Our words hesar thou, Eru Allfather! To the everlasting Darkness doom us if our deed faileth. On the holy mountian hear in witness and our vow remember Manwe and Varda!”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.”
John Gay
