Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.
If it shall be necessary, through sentences of excommunication against their persons and of interdict against their lands, all backsliding being put an end to, they compel them to fulfil their vows.
I have never gauged myself against anyone else.
I do not believe the accusations against my husband, not for one second.
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
He never bore a grudge against anyone he wronged.
It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.
If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed.
Apparently their numerous tattoos gave them protection against the cold as they had no coats.
You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage,' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it. ' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice,' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life. ' There's no credibility there.
The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.
The United States should not under any circumstances throw away our gun until we are sure the rest of the world cannot arm against us.
Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes.
Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.
Against spin, my god, he is really a murderer
There's no defense against stupidity.
I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.
Donald Trump's campaign is as divisive as any we have seen in our lifetimes. It is built on stoking mistrust and pitting American against American. It`s there in everything he says and everything he promises to do as president. This man is the nominee of the Party of Abraham Lincoln. We are watching it become the party of Trump. And that`s not just a huge loss for our democracy. It is a threat to it, because Donald Trump`s campaign adds up to an ugly, dangerous message to America.
As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.
If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified by the President and officers who have taken the oath and are under moral obligation to uphold it. . . . they may substitute personal and arbitrary government-the first principle of the totalitarian system against which it has been alleged that World War II was waged-while giving lip service to the principle of constitutional government.
