Against Quotes

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

Lord, I have loved Your sky,Be it said against or for me,Have loved it clear and high,Or low and stormy.

I once had the confidence of the people ... and if I have since done any thing, either by design or misadventure, which if known, would subject me to a forfeiture of that confidence, he that knows of that thing, and conceals it, is a traitor to his country's interest.

There will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the Government. The Government will not use force unless force is used against it.

A state of no less than 36,000,000 inhabitants... took up arms against us... Their confidence ... knew no bounds.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.