It requires strength and courage to swim against the stream, while any dead fish can float with it.
This servile pandering to popularity has been rapidly on the increase of late years, and its tendency has been to lower and degrade the character of public men.

Consciences have become more elastic.

There is now one opinion for the chamber, and another for the platform.

Prejudices are pandered to in public, which in private are despised.

Pretended conversions--which invariably jump with party interests are more sudden; and even hypocrisy now appears to be scarcely thought discreditable.
The same moral cowardice extends downwards as well as upwards.