It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
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My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
I have no predilection for unpopularity as such, but I hold it much preferable to the popularity of a day, which perishes with the transient topic upon which it is grounded.
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
I know I'm unpopular.
Congress is unpopular. Incumbents are unpopular.
I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.
I've had strong opinions probably since I was born. It makes you unpopular, but what can you do?
My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whether I sink or swim on the tide of popular favor is, to me, a matter of inferior consideration.
A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
In high school, I was very unpopular.
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