Opposition Quotes

Every revolution has its counter-revolution.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue.

There is nothing I dread so much as a division of the Republic into two great political parties, each arranged under its leader and converting measures in opposition to each other.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Why should freedom of speech and freedom of the press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes is right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

A person with 'oppositional conversational style' is a person who, in conversation, disagrees with and corrects whatever you say. He or she may do this in a friendly way, or a belligerent way, but this person frames remarks in opposition to whatever you venture.

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

The House Republicans are not the enemy, they’re the opposition. The Senate is the enemy.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

My record of opposition to illegal immigration is unquestioned.

Making an open stand against all the ungodliness and unrighteousness which overspreads our land as a flood is one of the noblest ways of confessing Christ in the face of His enemies.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.

In democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not its taste, but its effect,...

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.

One man with truth on his side is stronger than a majority in error, and will conquer in the end.

Power never takes a back step—only in the face of more power.