Public opinion has come to mean what public opinion polls measure: the vagaries of the public viewpoint at a moment in time, however vague, confused, ill informed and clouded with emotion it may be. Public judgment, on the other hand represents the public’s viewpoint after all elements of mere opinion have been distilled from it. […]
Opinion Quotes
People’s minds are changed through their pockets.
I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matter – for that I have determined for myself.
It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.
A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.
Public discussion is helping to doom slavery. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.
I value little my own opinions but I value just as little those of others.
