I am really persuaded that if we were to inquire of all the Cities which†have fallen by Siege into the Power of new Masters, who it was that subjected and overcame them, they would tell you, the Architect; and that they were strong enough to have despised the armed Enemy, but not to withstand the Shocks of the Engines, the Violence of the Machines and the Force of other Instruments of War with whichthe Architect, distressed, demolished and ruinated them.On the contrary, they would inform you that their greatest Defense lay in the Art and Assistance of the Architect.

-Alberti, Leon Battista
^2  Architecttura (translated by James Leoni,1755).

Complete the mission, though I be the lone survivor. Never leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy.

-Anonymous
  The Ranger's Creed, quoted in the NewYork Times, 25 Oct. The Rangers, a US  Army unit, had stayed to guard the body of a pilot fatally caught in a downed helicopter in Somalia.

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and mastersthefearofdeath. And therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.2,'Of Death'.

Ithink it iswellalsofor themaninthestreettorealizethat there is no power on earth that can protect him from being bombed.Whatever people will tell him, the bomber will always get through.The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly thanthe enemy if you want to save yourselves.

-Baldwin (of Bewdley), Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl
  Speech in the House of Commons,10 Nov.

In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine. And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me,O mine enemy?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 21:19^20.

O L our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy gloryabove the heavens.Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms 8:1^2.

If thine enemy behungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the L shall reward thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDProverbs 25:21^2.

Open rebuke is better than secret love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemyare deceitful.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 27:5^6.

But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew13:25.

He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him,Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew13:28.

He must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians15:26.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: Do be my enemyöfor friendship's sake.

-Blake,William
^11 MS Notebooks,'To H[ayley]', p.37.

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong timeöand with the wrong enemy.

-Bradley, Omar Nelson
At the Senate inquiry into proposals to escalate the Korean war into China, May.

   Naught broken save this body, lost but breath; Nothing to shake the laughing heart's long peace there But onlyagony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.

-Brooke, Rupert Chawner
  'Peace'.

Say not the struggle naught availeth The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain.

-Clough, Arthur Hugh
  'Say Not the Struggle Naught  Availeth'.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

-Connolly, Cyril Vernon
  Enemies of Promise, ch.14.

Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the habits formed by civilized man.

-Constantinus
  Victory, author's note.

England is a great and powerful nation, foremost in human progress, enemy to despotism, the only safe refuge for the exile, friend of the oppressed. If ever England should be so circumstanced as to require the help of anyally, cursed be the Italian who would not step forward with me in her defence.

-Garibaldi, Giuseppe
  Letter,12  Apr.

TheThird Fleet's sunken and damaged ships have been salvaged and are retiring at high speed toward the enemy.

-Halsey,W(illiam) F(rederick) known as  'Bull' Halsey
  Comment,14 Oct, on hearing claims that the Japanese had virtually annihilated the US fleet. Quoted in E B Potter Bull Halsey (1985), ch.17.

   Show me an enemy of literature, and I will show him my accounts.

-Hamilton, (Robert) Ian
  The Trouble  with Money and Other Essays.