Opposition Quotes - Page 18

• Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wish, Would Be, Taxation

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• Australians can trust me to get the job done. They can have the confidence that in the heart of the circumstances I will win through in their interests no matter how relentlessly negative the leader of the opposition is.

  Julia Gillard

  Jobs, Heart, Winning

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• The Bengal tiger always has his tail up, ready to devour the opposition.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Tails, Bengal Tigers, Ready

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• I think that you hear more opposition to the government in Venezuela than you would here in the United States. That's in the TV, in the radio and in the print media.

  Medea Benjamin

  Thinking, Print Media, Government

  "Tucker" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. May 29, 2007.

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• It is interesting that Satan, who voted for 'no opposition', has become the main source of it!

  Mary Edmunds

  Interesting, Satan, Source

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• When you meet opposition to your faith, your first reaction may be anger toward your antagonist. This may divert your attention from the deeper, spiritual dimensions of your conflict. Your adversary may be hopelessly in bondage to sin. Rather than retaliating, you should immediately and earnestly intercede for that person. Your opponent's hostility is your invitation to become involved in God's redemptive work to free him or her from spiritual bondage. Be alert to the spiritual warfare around you.

  Henry Blackaby

  Spiritual, Warfare, Attention

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• We are foolish to expect to serve God without opposition: the more zealous we are, the more sure are we to be assailed... Glory be to God, we know the end of the war. The great dragon shall be cast out and for ever destroyed, while Jesus and they who are with him shall receive the crown. Let us sharpen our swords to-night, and pray the Holy Spirit to nerve our arms for the conflict. Never battle so important, never crown so glorious. Every man to his post, ye warriors of the cross, and may the Lord tread Satan under your feet shortly!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, War, Night

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• Let us not fear the opposition of men; every great movement in the Church from Paul down to modern times has been criticized on the ground that it promoted scensoriousness and intolerance and disputing. Of course the gospel of Christ, in a world of sin and doubt will cause disputing; and if does not cause disputing and arrouse bitter opposition, that is a fairly sure sign that it is not being faithfully proclaimed.

  John Gresham Machen

  Men, Doubt, Church

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• Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in the Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the opposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

  George Washington

  Religious, Justice, Mind

  George Washington’s "Farewell Address", oll.libertyfund.org. September 19, 1796.

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• The major basis for my opposition to marijuana prohibition has not been how badly it's worked, the fact that it's produced much more harm than good - it has been primarily a moral reason: I don't think the state has any more right to tell me what to put into my mouth than it has to tell me what can come out of my mouth.

  Milton Friedman

  Marijuana, Thinking, Mouths

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• The organizer must become schizoid, politically, in order to slip into becoming a true believer. Before men can act an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil. He knows there can be no action until issues are polarized to this degree.

  Saul Alinsky

  Angel, Men, Issues

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• There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Reason, Obedience

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman, Guizot (François, M.), William Smith (1871). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.425

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• Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence.

  Edward Gibbon

  Envy, Violence, Wealth

  Edward Gibbon (1855). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.191

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• Although value is a weak force in any single year, it becomes a monster over several years. Like gravity, it slowly wears down the opposition.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Years, Monsters, Weak

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• It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.

  Gloria Steinem

  Passivity Is, Body, Feminine

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You just work really hard and scrutinize. What is it called in politics? "Opposition research"? You want to do the detective work on your client so to speak before your opponent can dig it up. We're vetting everything thoroughly.

  James Ponsoldt

  Detective Work, Research, Opponents

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm always gonna be in opposition no matter what, but I can still cover my bases and do what I like.

  Ariel Pink

  Matter, Bases, Stills

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

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• In Deuteronomy 11, God offers Israel a choice; either a life of productivity and enjoyment made possible by obedience to Him, or a life of difficulty and opposition made necessary by disobedience. The happiness Israel desires can only be theirs by being properly related to Him.

  Max Anders

  Israel, Choices, Desire

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• It should be appreciated that if the arrangement on Iran's nuclear program collapses after being so patiently negotiated, and successfully implemented since 2014 despite the intense opposition of Netanyahu's Israel and its American loyalists in Congress, it would be widely perceived around the world as a huge setback in the search for regional stability and the struggle to prevent any further spread of nuclear weapons.

  Richard A. Falk

  Struggle, Israel, Iran

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If you want to understand what's going to happen, you can't look in the rearview mirror into the United States' history, because that's done now. You have to look out at the rest of the world and look at the history of the rest of the world, and what you'll see is demonstrations and counter-demonstrations are going to become the norm. We'll have a big march, then they'll have a big march, we'll have a big rally and they'll have a big rally. That will be one of the features. Again, a pro-regime and pro-opposition media system, that will become a feature.

  Van Jones

  Media, Mirrors, Looks

  Source: pen.org

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• I think the media, the boxing public hasn't seen me at my best simply because great opposition brings out the best in you.

  Celestino Caballero

  Thinking, Media, Boxing

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves. How can we expect anybody else to?

  Gloria Steinem

  Effectiveness, Voting, Problem

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• We are past opposition. I mean, we've crossed that threshold before [Donald] Trump was inaugurated.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Past, Trump

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The left want to get rid of all opposition. They don't want to debate the opposition. They don't want to argue. They just don't want there to be any.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Want, Arguing, Debate

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The states is where resistance is opposition to Obamacare is taking place. The states is where tax reform is taking place, starting. The states is where whatever opposition to the latest crisis of the day is, be it health care, immigration, or guns. The states - the majority of which have Republican governors - are where this is all being dealt with, and you're not hearing about it. They don't get a lot of press coverage, but that's where this is happening.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Gun, Obamacare, Majority

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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