Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.
My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.
Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
Where there is little or no public opinion there is likely to be bad government which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments or some other kind of arrangement is quite frankly secondary in my opinion.
We are watching industries crumble Wall Street firms disappear unemployment spike and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's or Abraham Lincoln's?
A little group of willful men representing no opinion but their own have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And of course sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
We seldom find any person of good sense except those who share our opinions.
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Arguments are extremely vulgar for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
The good opinion of mankind like the lever of Archimedes with the given fulcrum moves the world.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
It's funny because I'm a man of strong opinions and when I make one I stand by it even if it starts to appear incorrect to me after a while.