“He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.” 

“mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy” 

“If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.” 

“Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm” 

“Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.” 

“He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.” 

“The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.” 

“To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.” 

“When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.” 

“To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.” 

The enemy of development is this pain phobia – the unwillingness to do a tiny bit of suffering.

The enemy of development is this pain phobia – the unwillingness to do a tiny bit of suffering.

Even though there wasn't much damage, it's a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy plane being shot down. It provides a regrettably graphic illustration of the saying that a bungling attack is better than the most skillful defense.

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack.

“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.” 

“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.” 

I am not one of these guys who is just going to waste American lives by throwing people needlessly in frontal attacks up against the enemy if I can avoid doing that.

I am not one of these guys who is just going to waste American lives by throwing people needlessly in frontal attacks up against the enemy if I can avoid doing that.

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.”

“These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.” 

“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.”

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend