(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.
Opinion Quotes
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.
Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
The difference is as great between the optics seeing as the objects seen.
