Mortal Enemy

Famous quotes containing the words mortal and/or enemy:

“Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“The enemy are no match for us in a fair fight.... The young men ... of the upper class are kind-hearted, good-natured fellows, who are unfit as possible for the business they are in. They have courage but no endurance, enterprise, or energy. The lower class are cowardly, cunning, and lazy. The height of their ambition is to shoot a Yankee from some place of safety.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)