#opponent

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

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The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#constitution #hardly #importance #inferior #jefferson

Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents. ↗

— David Frum

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Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

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To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

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The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. ↗

— George Orwell

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Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory. ↗

— Ovid

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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

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If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it. ↗

— Pete du Pont

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