Opinion Quotes

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

I was myself so smitten in public opinion that it was the almost universal view that my political life was at last ended.

Battles are the principal milestones in secular history. Modern opinion resents this uninspiring truth, and historians often treat the decisions of the field as incidents in the dramas of politics and diplomacy.

There is a kind of intolerant spirit now abroad which arises out of the growing power of party and other machinery - a spirit which resents individual opinion, which clamours for uniformity and political Test Acts.

I'm a role model for those who dare to be different. For those who dare to take a stand in their life and have an opinion.

I'd rather people love me or hate me than have no opinion of me. Indifference is scary.

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

My opinion is that no state can, in any way lawfully, get out of the Union, without the consent of the others; and that it is the duty of the President, and other government functionaries to run the machine as it is.

The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.