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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

It rarely adds anything to say, 'In my opinion' - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

It's certainly not just a spot opinion; it's something that obviously has been building up for years. It is also very good for publicity, and it is the kind of recognition that maybe will help financially, also.

I've got an opinion on everything, so I should go into management.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.

I've always avoided expressing an opinion about where I think the republican movement should go - if it should go anywhere at all.

I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.