All 14 Uses of
contrary
in
Profiles in Courage
- Its key features were five in number: (1) California was to be admitted as a free (non-slaveholding) state; (2) New Mexico and Utah were to be organized as territories without legislation either for or against slavery, thus running directly contrary to the hotly debated Wilmot Proviso which was intended to prohibit slavery in the new territories; (3) Texas was to be compensated for some territory to be ceded to New Mexico; (4) the slave trade would be abolished in the District of…†
Chpt 2.3 (definition 1)
- As the Massachusetts Legislature enacted further resolutions wholly contrary to the spirit of the Seventh of March speech, one member called Webster "a recreant son of Massachusetts who misrepresents her in the Senate"; and another stated that "Daniel Webster will be a fortunate man if God, in his sparing mercy, shall preserve his life long enough for him to repent of this act and efface this stain on his name."†
Chpt 2.3 (definition 1)
- …their judgment and their conscience at the behests of party newspapers and party hate, I had the courage to be true to my oath and my conscience…… Perhaps I did wrong not to commit perjury by order of a party; but I cannot see it that way…… I became a judge acting on my own responsibility and accountable only to my own conscience and my Maker; and no power could force me to decide on such a case contrary to my convictions, whether that party was composed of my friends or my enemies.†
Chpt 3.6 (definition 1)
- Moreover, consistent with the courageous philosophy that had governed his return to public life, Lamar was determined not to back down merely because his section was contrary minded.†
Chpt 3.7 *
- On the contrary, his speeches were a learned explanation of his position, setting forth the Constitutional history of the Senate and its relationship to the state legislatures, and the statements and examples of Burke, and of Calhoun, Webster, and other famous Senators who had disagreed with Legislative instructions: "Better to follow the example of the illustrious men whose names have been given than to abandon altogether judgment and conviction in deference to popular clamor."†
Chpt 3.7 (definition 2)
- We should not pretend that he was a faultless paragon of virtue; on the contrary, he was, on more than one occasion, emotional in his deliberations, vituperative in his denunciations, and prone to engage in bitter and exaggerated personal attack instead of concentrating his fire upon the merits of an issue.†
Chpt 4.8 (definition 2)
- Sharing the fears of his astonished friends in the Senate that hysteria and well-financed opposition might insure his defeat which in turn would be interpreted as a mandate for war, he nevertheless insisted in his letter to the Governor that he had "no desire to represent the people of Nebraska if my official conduct is contrary to their wishes."†
Chpt 4.8 (definition 1)
- I will not, however, even at the behest of a unanimous constituency, violate my oath of office by voting in favor of a proposition that means the surrender by Congress of its sole right to declare war…… If my refusal to do this is contrary to the wishes of the people of Nebraska, then I should be recalled and someone else selected to fill the place…… I am, however, so firmly convinced of the righteousness of my course that I believe if the intelligent and patriotic citizenship of the…†
Chpt 4.8 (definition 1)
- On the contrary, by retelling some of the most outstanding and dramatic stories of political courage in the Senate, I have attempted to indicate that this is a quality which may be found in any Senator, in any political party and in any era.†
Chpt 4.10 (definition 2)
- But Senator Underwood, convinced that the Klan was contrary to all the principles of Jeffersonian democracy in which he believed, denounced it in no uncertain terms, insisted that this was the paramount issue upon which the party would have to take a firm stand, and fought vigorously but unsuccessfully to include an anti-Klan plank in the party platform.†
Chpt 4.10 (definition 1)
- On the contrary it was precisely because they did love themselves—because each one's need to maintain his own respect for himself was more important to him than his popularity with others—because his desire to win or maintain a reputation for integrity and courage was stronger than his desire to maintain his office—because his conscience, his personal standard of ethics, his integrity or morality, call it what you will—was strongerthan the pressures of public disapproval—because his…†
Chpt 4.11 (definition 2)
- On the contrary, I share the feelings expressed by Prime Minister Melbourne, who, when irritated by the criticism of the then youthful historian T. B. Macaulay, remarked that he would like to be as sure of anything as Macaulay seemed to be of everything.†
Chpt 4.11 (definition 2)
- On the contrary, the loyalties of every Senator are distributed among his party, his state and section, his country and his conscience.†
Chpt 4.11 (definition 2) *
- We can improve our democratic processes, we can enlighten our understanding of its problems, and we can increase our respect for those men of integrity who find it necessary, from time to time, to act contrary to public opinion.†
Chpt 4.11 (definition 1) *