Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to papal nuncio Count Dugnani (14 February 1818)
1810s
“Since the revolution, I have done all that depended upon me to return happiness to my country and to ensure liberty for my fellow citizens. Forced to combat internal and external enemies of the French Republic, I made war with courage, honor and loyalty. I have never strayed from the rules of justice with my enemies as much as was in my power I sought to soften the horrors of war, to spare the blood of men.”
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Journal entry upon entering the armed services (December 3, 1941)
“My friends, judge me by the enemies I have made.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
Speech made on the campaign trail in Portland, Oregon (21 September 1932)
1930s
“Even if my country remains at war with yours... remember … I am not your enemy.”
A. J. Cronin book The Keys of the Kingdom
Source: The Keys of the Kingdom (1941), p. 281
“I have forgiven all my enemies and forced karma to go unemployed.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891–1945) Japanese general
Radio message to Imperial Japanese Army's vice chief of staff.
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
As quoted in Hitler and Nazism (1961) by Louis Leo Snyder, p. 66
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Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) 18th President of the United States
1880s, Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885)
Context: As we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris' camp, and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on. When we reached a point from which the valley below was in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been encamped a few days before was still there and the marks of a recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart resumed its place. It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards. From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.
Account of his effort as Colonel of the 21st Infantry of Illinois, to engage Confederate Colonel Thomas Harris in northern Missouri, Ch. 18.
