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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted read more
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man--public opinion.
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
His deeds inimitable, like the Sea
That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts
Nor read more
His deeds inimitable, like the Sea
That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts
Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts.
There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two
hairs, or two grains; the most read more
There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two
hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
- Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,
It is not often that an opinion is worth expressing, which cannot
take care of itself.
It is not often that an opinion is worth expressing, which cannot
take care of itself.
Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion--what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, read more
Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion--what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.