"The best is the enemy of the good."

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"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is."

Shana Alexander, American Journalist

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"Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them."

Knute Rockne, American Coach

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"Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes."

Oliver Goldsmith, Irish Poet

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"Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer."

Franz Halder, German Soldier

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"Good is often the enemy of best."

Edwin Louis Cole, American Author

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"What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other."

Mary Douglas, British Scientist

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"While the CDC is focusing on how our enemies could attack us, our military is focused on who may attack us."

John Linder, American Politician

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"No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me."

William Congreve, English Poet

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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

Government

"I die adoring God loving my friends not hating my enemies and detesting superstition."

Faith

"Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle sex in order to work in hospitals for the relief of human misery, the sight of which is so revolting to our delicacy. Peoples separated from the Roman religion have imitated but imperfectly so generous a charity."

Humanity

"What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature."

Nature

"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

Man

"We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature."

Nature

"Perhaps, if I use my reason in good faith, I may suceed in discovering some ray of probability to lighten me in the dark night of nature. And if this faint dawn which I seek does not come to me, I shall be consoled to think that my ignorance is invincible; that knowledge which is forbidden me is assuredly useless to me; and that the great Being will not punish me for having sought a knowledge of him and failed to obtain it."

Philosophy

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."

Wisdom

"By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property."

Wisdom

"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."

History