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Your Quotes for 27 June 2006 - Enemies

It was on this day in 1973, during the third of four days of testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee, that John Dean revealed the existence of an "enemies list" maintained by the Nixon White House. I'm not sure if I have any enemies, I certainly don't bother to keep a list. As you might expect, I have no problem coming up with a list of quotes regarding enemies.

Watergate was one part wrongdoing, one part blundering, and one part political vendetta by my enemies.
     - Richard M. Nixon, 1913 - 1994

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
     - Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1831 - 1891

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
     - François Marie Arouet (Voltaire), 1694 - 1778

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
     - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, 1613 - 1680

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
     - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874 - 1936

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
     - Yitzhak Rabin

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
     - Winston Churchill, 1874 - 1965

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