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“If there are any persons who contest a received opinion,or who will do so if law or opinion will let them, let us thankthem for it, open our minds to listen to them, and rejoicethat there is some o...”
“If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself.”
“So many men so many opinions.”
“Three Spaniards four opinions.”
“Public opinion a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.”
“The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.”
“The world is not run by thought nor by imagination but by opinion.”
“'No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.”
“I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
“It is not truth but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.”
“There never were two opinions alike in all the world no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity.”
“Public opinion is a compound of folly weakness prejudice wrong feeling right feeling obstinacy and newspaper paragraphs.”
“There are a great many opinions in this world and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.”
“It were not best that we should all think alike it is difference of opinion that makes horseraces.”
“Stiff in opinion always in the wrong.”
“It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.”
“Public opinion though often formed upon a wrong basis yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.”
“Force and not opinion is the queen of the world but it it opinion that uses the force.”
“The feeble tremble before opinion the foolish defy it the wise judge it the skillful direct it.”
“I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon Voltaire or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.”
