Decision Quote by Abraham Lincoln

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment…

— Abraham Lincoln

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

— Lucy Stone

He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will…

— John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what…

— Baruch Spinoza

“Public opinion is less tolerant than any system of law.”

— George Orwell

A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who…

— Lord Acton

I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public…

— Warren Beatty

A successful politician must not only be able to read the mood of the public, he must have the skill to get the public…

— Jean Chretien

A legislative entrepreneur...doesn't just believe the right things. He's out there trying to make a good idea legislatively viable.

— Matt Kibbe

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

— John Locke

He that opposes his own judgment against the consent of the times ought to be backed with unanswerable truths; and he that has truth…

— Daniel Defoe

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or…

— Henry David Thoreau