It’s better to be an enemy of the state than a friend: a friend can only be sold, but an enemy can only be bought.

When your enemy has you by the throat, you put your enmity on hold.

A strong friend can be more dangerous than a weak enemy.

When you’re swimming with the sharks, you can’t afford to be burdened with scruples.

If we ask the state to guarantee our freedoms and ensure that justice is done, who guarantees that it does so?

The strength of a nation is its people, not its government.

If it hadn’t been seen, it hadn’t happened.

Rome might not have been built in a day, but it didn’t fall overnight either.

If you load oppositional words with negative connotations, then critical thought is stifled. If you load supportive words with positive connotations, then people can’t avoid thinking in the prescribed way.