Quotes About Opposition

If any man tries to stop us, cut him down.

I am running to and you are running from, and there's a world of difference there.

The fire that burns against the cold.

Against every great and noble endeavor stand a thousand mediocre minds.

Everywhere liberty is surrounded by secret or open enemies

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed.... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

Does it not sometimes happen in life that our actions are solely for an enemy, so as to stand up to him, to confound him, to humiliate him by a finer effort or a more difficult victory? Without him we might perhaps give up. Having an enemy stimulates us, gives us strength. In him we hope to defeat the universe and the malevolence of fate.

Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

The adversary system is a kind of warfare in mufti.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights have no great objection to setting them wrong.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

In my business, you measure your respect by the enemies you make.

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind.