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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

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.

It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.

In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

We should never let ourselves be burnt for our opinions; we are not that sure of them. But perhaps for this -- that we may have and change our opinions.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.