“Whoever has the Americans as allies does not need any enemies.”
Madame Nhu (1924–2011) First lady of South Vietnam
Jones (2003) Death of a Generation p.407. November 2nd, 1963, following the assassination of her husband and brother-in-law.
“An ally has to be watched just like an enemy.”
As quoted in Expansion and Coexistence: The History of Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-67 (1974) by Adam Bruno Ulam
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Montesquieu (1689–1755) French social commentator and political thinker
No. 95. (Usbek writing to Rhedi)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2005, Address to the National Endowment for Democracy (October 2005)
“And as every spy knows, common enemies are how allies always begin.”
Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
“It’s the problem with politics. Your enemies are often your allies. And vice versa.”
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 19 (p. 194)
“A skilled soldier kills your enemies, but a skilled duelist kills your allies.”
Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000)
“When a feeling dissolves, it ceases to be your enemy and begins to be one of your allies.”
Ed Seykota (1946) American commodities trader
Source: FAQ - Fri, 31 Oct 2003 Thought Processes http://www.seykota.com/tribe/pages/2003_Oct/Oct_26-31/index.htm
“Watch for phonies, keep your enemies close nigga watch your homies”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
James Baldwin book No Name in the Street
No Name in the Street (1972)
Context: Well, if one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected — those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! — and listens to their testimony. Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person — ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
