I've always said it's interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the back. I like that mixture.
An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assured that the rights it guarantees will be respected with such a scrupulous fidelity as will reduce to despair its enemies, hidden or avowed.
I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.
Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.
To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies.
My enemies are everywhere. And sometimes, those we least suspect turn out to be our biggest threats.
Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them? There are who in the path of social life Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul.
A ruler wishing to win shold not trust a cpterued enemy even if he may be extending had to be friend. Because deep rooted enemity, however, concealed, will ruerely come to light.
Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.
