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How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.

Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.

Therefore, every country has to understand that fighting against international terrorism is not for the sake of the United States, but for the sake of themselves, and, to a larger extent, in the name of stability of international relations.

Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.

There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.

I am against the notion of style in itself.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

I will run against anybody.

It's always good to go against your friends, especially when you come out victorious.

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against the others.

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.

Universal suffrage is the only guarantee against despotism.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.

In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.

What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended Arab interests against the world. That, in the end, is more important than what they wear on their head.

I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.

I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us.

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.