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Quote by William Hazlitt
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter. – William Hazlitt

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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. – William Hazlitt

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

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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. – Dwight D Eisenhower

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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. – George Eliot

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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. – Edmund Burke

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