Lewis D. Eigen Quotes

But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends.

Today’s enemy may be tomorrow’s ally (and vice versa).

The ultimate case for the third way is that it works …. The third way, in the end, must lift our adversaries as well as our friends.

A politician rises on the backs of his friends ... but it is through his enemies he will have to govern afterwards.

In politics … a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate.

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

Lincoln, like Seward, had developed a cadre of lifelong friends who were willing to do anything in their power to ensure his nomination. But unlike Seward, he had not made enemies or aroused envy along the way.

Trust not a new friend or an old enemy.

Be careful of your enemy once and of your friend a thousand times, for a double crossing friend knows more about what harms you.

These Egyptians, Cyprians, Cilicians, and Pamphylians, who are counted in the number of your subject-allies, of how little service are they to you!

A good politicians knows his friends and a good politician knows his enemies.

He that is not with me is against me.

No better friend, no worse enemy

[Thomas] Jefferson understood a timeless truth, that politics is kaleidoscopic, constantly shifting, and the morning’s foe may well be the afternoon’s friend.

In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

It's really important if you're in politics to have a loyal friend.

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

There is no such thing as eternal friendship or eternal hostility– only eternal interests.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

All men work more zealously against their enemies than they cooperate with their friends.

Conflict with our allies in a war is terrible. But the only thing worse is fighting a war without allies.

It is more possible that a good Christian should form an alliance with the devil than I with England.

It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.

Grouping and mutuality of countries and peoples in the Balkans is the only road that leads to economic, national and political liberation.