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

— Walter Lippmann

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Sigmund Freud

An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.

— Bainbridge Colby

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

— Jeb Bush

Just because you have opposition doesn't make you a great leader.

— Marco Rubio

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

— Friedrich Schiller

Opposition provides choices, and choices bring consequences - good or bad.

— Ezra Taft Benson

For me, opposition is just another opposition.

— Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.

— Susie Orbach

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

— John Burns

✗Opposing Perspectives

To somebody like Obama, substantive opposition is not tolerable. The objective is to eliminate all opposition - be it a political party, be it media, or what have you.

— Rush Limbaugh