The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Judges . . . rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should... — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Iran and Russia have taken specific actions to influence public opinion related to our elections. — John Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
We were determined by public opinions of us. Would we think we existed without outside confirmation? And how long would we live… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
“TR on using extramarital accusations against Wilson: "It won't work. You can't cast a man as Romeo who looks and acts like… — David Pietrusza Copy Share Image
A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society… — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
The [Nazi party] should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate it. It must not become a servant of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“In 2004 the Department created a Bureau of Public Opinion, which commissioned surveys and research to measure the pulse of the public… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
“We countenance each other in this life of show, puffing, advertisement, and manufacture of public opinion; and excellence is lost sight of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first to grasp how sensitive Israeli public opinion was on the issue of hostages and M.I.A.'s - and therefore what a… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
“From our experience of the past and our literature of the past we have derived a naïve faith in the power of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“China’s critics rightly condemn the government for controlling public opinion in all sorts of ways, from imprisoning dissidents to censoring internet discussions.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion.… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Today, parliaments are more important because of the need of legitimacy, of the popular legitimacy, of public opinion legitimacy of politics. Parliaments… — Enrico Letta Copy Share Image
Public opinion should not be confused with popular sentiment. Popular sentiment is what people say to one another around their dinner tables.… — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and I were… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What is the Liberty of the Press? Who can give it any definition which does not leave the utmost latitude for evasion?… — David Alan Corbin Copy Share Image
“The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Yes, I may be considered an enemy of woman; but if I can help her see the light, I shall not complain.… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“I was receiving at least ninety-nine incredible, positive, and life-changing responses for every negative or abusive one, yet I couldn’t stop looking… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes. — David Titley Copy Share Image
Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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