Fervent Quote by Walter Lippmann

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters.…

— Walter Lippmann

Opposition is the very spur of love.

— Tobias Smollett

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is…

— Anonymous

Opposition is not necessarily enmity.

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

If we are confident of what we can do, then all opposition simply has to be treated as a whole.

— Ravi Shastri

He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look facts in…

— Alice Miller

“Beware making a person, rather than a position, the opposition. If we do that we run the risk of losing that person as an…

— Elouise Bell

“At one level, the Opposition's most urgent job, between now and the next election, is to publicise the government's mistakes. Randolph Churchill once declared…

— Tony Abbott MP

In Washington, particularly, the loyal opposition has a job to be the opposition. But you can't stop there.

— Jeb Bush

I know why there must be opposition in all things. Adversity, if handled correctly, can be a blessing in our lives. We can learn…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin