Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Opinions

• A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Character, Reality

• Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Society, Public Opinion, Privacy

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.15

• In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Civilization, America, Public Opinion

  Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.253, Gale Cengage Learning

• There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Coward, Public Opinion

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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