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[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people. -- Thomas Jefferson
Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste. -- William Shakespeare
The sin that now rises to memory as your bosom sin, let this first of all be withstood and mastered. Oppose it instantly by a detestation of it, by a firm will to conquer it, by reflection, by reason, and by prayer. -- William Ellery Channing
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. -- George Will
I do not oppose form, but only form as a goal. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it. -- Winston Churchill
I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die. -- Eldridge Cleaver
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse? -- Ivan Turgenev
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. -- Sigmund Freud
I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it. -- Jesse Ventura
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. -- Barack Obama
I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government. -- Todd Akin
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. -- Alexander Hamilton
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. -- Simone de Beauvoir
It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you. -- Catharine MacKinnon
We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States. -- Kim Jong Il
The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism. -- Taslima Nasrin
All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?' -- Manal al-Sharif
The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security. -- George McGovern
I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rewards innovation. But SOPA won't accomplish a meaningful reduction in piracy and causes massive collateral damage to the Internet ecosystem. -- Jared Polis
It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as a whole oppose the Nuremburg trials, or the development of human rights law. -- Judith Butler
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. -- John F. Kennedy
And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history. -- David Icke
I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying. -- Barack Obama
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt. -- Barack Obama
There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life. -- Harry Bridges
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
We should all oppose - as Darwin did - views manifestly in conflict with the evidence, such as creationism... But we shouldn't set up this debate as 'religion v science'; instead we should strive for peaceful coexistence with at least the less dogmatic strands of mainstream religions, which number many excellent scientists among their adherents. -- Martin Rees
Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances. -- Karl Abraham
If you see bigotry, oppose it. -- Hillary Clinton
To oppose something is to maintain it. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Oppression breeds the power to oppose it. -- Andrew Solomon
The duty of an Opposition is to oppose. -- Lord Randolph Churchill
I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage. -- Ed Case
Republicans cannot continue to oppose every Hispanic issue. -- Luis Fortuno
I oppose the president's plan to privatize Social Security. -- Brian Higgins
Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand. -- William Penn
To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language. -- Thomas Jefferson
I'm against TPP and I'm going to oppose it. -- Jeff Sessions
Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will. -- Mary Caroline Richards
I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace. -- Ad Reinhardt
When we oppose God's delegated authority, we oppose God Himself. -- John Bevere
It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition. -- Anthony Daniels
Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose, -- Jonathan Franzen
He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done. -- Leonardo da Vinci
To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism. -- G. Edward Griffin
Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything in this world is designed to oppose your forward movement! -- Eric Ludy
Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them. -- Laozi
We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose. -- Frank Herbert
Work on what you support rather than fighting what you oppose. -- Wayne Dyer
Traitors! I shall oppose you in the name of the Han! -- Liu Bei
Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself. -- Laozi
The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race. -- Edward Abbey
It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts. -- Camille Paglia
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. -- Desmond Tutu
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! -- Thomas Paine
There are more scriptural reasons to oppose homophobia than to oppose homosexuality. -- John B. Cobb
The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history. -- Martin Buber
My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage. -- Ed Case
Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves. -- Andy Rooney
We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports -- Mao Zedong
.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory. -- David Hume
The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples. -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky
There will always be war, but we must always work to oppose it. -- Shunryu Suzuki
However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life. -- Robert Casey
If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. -- Ayn Rand
If my own brother challenged the faith of millions, I would oppose him. -- Jerome Lawrence
I must oppose the use of federal funds for a policy of killing infants. -- Jesse Jackson
It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it. -- Charlotte Lennox
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. -- William Penn
Eventually you realize that not all opposing viewpoints come from people who oppose you. -- Robert Breault
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. -- Frederick Douglass
Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade. -- Richard Neal
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness. -- Isaac Watts
Creative ideas are often attacked because people oppose change or do not understand new concepts. -- Henry Heimlich
I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form. -- Hugh Masekela
Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad. -- Jacob M. Appel
We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun. -- Dave Eggers
Because he (the Sage) opposes no one, no one in the world can oppose him. -- Laozi
When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her. -- Ann Radcliffe
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. -- Elbert Hubbard
People who oppose Obama are said to be racists - so I guess I'm a racist. -- Herman Cain
While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes. -- Jason Chaffetz
People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side. -- Condoleezza Rice
The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us. -- Richard Perle
Japan is a bully nation that takes what it wants and threatens any who oppose it. -- Paul Watson
The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea. -- Jack Kemp
There are more than enoughto fight and oppose;why waste good timefighting the people you like~? -- Morrissey
There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin." -- Fulton J. Sheen
The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself. -- Peter Thiel
When we oppose the hidden conscience, it does us hurt. When we betray it, it judges us. -- Khalil Gibran
To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose -- George Orwell
All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other -- Amiri Baraka
I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals. -- Robert Paul Weston
The gates of heaven surely are closed to those who decline to oppose totalitarianism with all their might. -- G. Edward Griffin
I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler -- Wilhelm Canaris
It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox. -- Carl Jung
Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it. -- Jeremy Corbyn
You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it. -- Nelson Mandela
There are more than enough to fight and oppose; why waste good time fighting the people you like? -- Steven Morrissey
When we ask God to transform those who oppose us, we are also asking God to transform us. -- Dillon Burroughs
It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust. -- Wendy McElroy
As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another. -- Marcus Eremita
I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever. -- Kathy Acker
As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry. -- June Jordan
Homo-sexuals should not be censored, but neither should those who oppose their point of view. That's called free speech. -- Cal Thomas
What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace. -- James F. Byrnes
If you're uncertain when life begins, why not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt and oppose abortion? -- Jonah Goldberg
The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. -- Albert Schweitzer
I oppose amnesty, I oppose citizenship, I oppose legalization for illegal aliens. I always have and I always will. -- Ted Cruz
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You might as well deny 'Mormonism,' and turn away from it, as to oppose the plurality of wives. -- Heber C. Kimball
The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union. -- Edmund Phelps

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