Opinions

Famous quotes containing the word opinions:

    Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    A majority, held in restraint by constitutional checks, and limitations, and always changing easily, with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybody in matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.
    William Cobbett (1762–1835)