Opposition always enflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.

Given a sufficient number of people and an adequate amount of time you can create insurmountable opposition to the most inconsequential idea.

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

Opposition is true friendship.

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.