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Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.

In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.

It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country.

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.

We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.

Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time.