“Opposition: In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it.”
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“Opposition: In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it.”
“Opposition is true friendship”
“The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire”
“Love and friendship exclude each other”
“The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth”
“Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty”
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die”
“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite”
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it”
“It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite”
“To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation”
“We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.”