All BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Quotes about “Opinions”

“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.”
“If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have as much of it as you please: But if it means the liberty of affronting, calumniating and defaming one another, I, for my part, own myself willing to part with my share of it, whenever our legislators shall please so to alter the law and shall chearfully consent to exchange my liberty of abusing others for the privilege of not being abused myself.”
“If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.”
“I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.”
“When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.”
“Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.”
“I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms.”
“When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; when Truth and Error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.”

More Benjamin Franklin quote about:

You may also like:

Abraham Lincoln
16th U.S. President
Alexander Hamilton
Founding Father of the United States
George Washington
1st U.S. President
Isaac Newton
Physicist
James Madison
4th U.S. President
John Adams
2nd U.S. President
Jonathan Edwards
Preacher
Patrick Henry
Governor of Virginia
Samuel Adams
Founding Father of the United States
Thomas A. Edison
Inventor
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President
Thomas Paine
Author