Stephen Harper Quotes

I have an opinion. I have a right to have one, and that's the way I feel.

Everybody is entitled to his own opinion.

I think politics are a personal thing, and everybody has a right to their own opinion.

Everyone has the right to their own opinion.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. And I have the right to say what I want on my music 'cause it's my music. If you don't like it, don't click on it, don't download it.

I think people have a right to their point of view.

The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to.

If someone thinks homosexuality is immoral, they have a right to believe that.

Isn't this country wonderful because you get the right to believe what you want to? But where we all get into trouble is when some people feel they have the right to inflict their beliefs on others.

Americans cling tenaciously to the belief that they have the right to entire freedom of opinion and freedom of action so long as they do the work for which they are employed. The man who happens to be working in a factory has just as much right to his personal likes and dislikes as his employer; and the employee might as well resent any effort on the part of the man who happens to be at the time his superior in authority to tell him how he must regulate his personal private affairs.

I'm not pretending I can change the world, or to be an expert on social and political affairs. But I certainly have a right to say when something is wrong.

Everybody's got a right to their own opinion, you know?

Everybody is allowed to have their own opinion.

If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.

If you feel strongly about something and you want to voice your opinion, I feel it's your right, so, that's how I look at it because that's how life is.

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.

Everyone is entitled to have their own opinions.

People have the right to their opinion and you have the right to ignore it.

People have a right to their opinion.

When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

I should be very sorry to see the United States holding anyone in confinement on account of any opinion that that person might hold. It is a fundamental tenet of our institutions that people have a right to believe what they want to believe and hold such opinions as they want to hold without having to answer to anyone for their private opinion.

Persecution always says, 'I know the consequences of your opinion better than you know them yourselves.' But the language of toleration was always amicable, liberal, and just: it confessed its doubts, and acknowledged its ignorance ... Persecution had always reasoned from cause to effect, from opinion to action, [that such an opinion would invariably lead to but one action], which proved generally erroneous; while toleration led us invariably to form just conclusions, by judging from actions and not from opinions.