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"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty".

- John F. Kennedy

It`s fortunate that I don`t have to live with being Ballet Boy any more. After this I`ll be called the nipple-circling dress-wearer or Rat Boy. - On his character Hallem Foe.

- Jamie Bell

American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.

- Arlen Specter

I have known war as few men now living know it. It`s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

- Douglas MacArthur

Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.

- Tom Tancredo

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

- Anthony Hope

Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.

- John Milton

Against mighty odds you held the line and faced down a huge military foe, the British Crown Forces and their surrogates in the unionist death squads.

- Gerry Adams

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

- Aaron Browning

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

- Adrian Ocneanu

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

- Albert Low

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England`s hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

- Alberto Santos Dumont

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

- Alexander Veshnyakov

Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.

- Alfredo Rangel

In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!

- Amber Sheldon

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

- Ammar Dwaik

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

- Andrew Moran

The FOE Chevy started out tight, then as we ran more laps it became loose on entry,

- Armen Keteyian

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.

- Grantland Rice

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction

- William Osler

Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

- Dorothy Parker

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Buddha
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Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Beware of the friend who was once your foe.

- Proverb
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