Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
Opinion Quotes
When I want your opinion I’ll give it to you.
If I want your opinion, I’ll read your entrails.
Judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.
(One of Madison’s favorite stories involved a vain French officer who asked a fellow officer to be frank in revealing what the world thought of him. The fellow officer said:) The opinion of the world is divided: the men say you are an old woman; And the women say you are an old man.
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.
Public opinion in this country is everything.
Do not think of knocking out anothers brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
