Opposition

Quotes about opposition

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• He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
  • Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Reflections on the Revolution in France.

• The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.
  • Randolph Churchill, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

• No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
  • Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby, Bk. II, ch i.

• When I first came into Parliament, Mr. Tierney, a great Whig authority, used always to say that the duty of an Opposition was very simple—it was to oppose everything and propose nothing.
  • Edward Stanley, debate (June 4, 1841). See Hansard's Parliamentary Debates.

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