Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle… If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Opinion Quotes
Opinions is a species of property – I am always desirous of sharing.
We must love them both – those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject. For both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in the finding of it.
The most effective way to influence opinion is by the selection and arrangement of the appropriate facts.
Stay at home in your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions.
Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
When we throw off the yoke of public opinion, it is seldom for the purpose of rising above it, but nearly always to fall below.
You think, because you have spoken nothing when others spoke, and have given no opinion on the times… that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom. Far otherwise; it is known that you have no opinion: You are measured by your silence and found wanting. You have no oracle to utter, […]
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. It is the resistance offered to definite ideas by that vague bulk of people whose ideas are indefinite to excess. Bigotry may be called the appalling frenzy of the indifferent. This frenzy of the indifferent is in truth a terrible thing; […]
