Liberalism — it is well to recall this today — is the supreme form of generosity — Jose Ortega y Gasset
It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. — John Jay Chapman
I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts. — Hedy Lamarr
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy. — Hesiod
If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. — James Madison Jr
They are playing politics with this issue, and sending mixed signals to our troops and the enemy. — John Kerry
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. — James Baldwin
It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend. — Margaret Thatcher
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. — Helen Keller
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. — Jean de La Fontaine
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. — Jean de La Fontaine
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. — Max Eastman