Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
It's true that since 9/11, the application of conventional military rules of engagement has gotten a bit foggy. The Taliban were not an 'enemy state,' but the Canadian Forces conducted its operations in Afghanistan as though the rules of war applied anyway.
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.
In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.
The enemy of successful long-term freezing is air. When air meets food, dehydration occurs, leading to freezer burn. With delicate proteins like fish, freezer burn can be downright fatal, ruining both texture and flavor.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Hesitating and hand-wringing when confronted by violence discourages the human-rights activists on the front lines and emboldens the enemy.
Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.
Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.
The United States treated Gaddafi as an enemy due to his support for terrorism against us, until a rapprochement of sorts began under Pres. George W. Bush at the very end of 2003.
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.
We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.