If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

To make peace with an enemy one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one's partner.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)

Abraham Lincoln was often criticized for trying to make friends with his enemies instead of trying to get rid of them. He replied, "Isn't that what I'm doing when I make an enemy a friend?