Best Public Opinion Sayings
296 Public Opinion quotes by 220 unique authors
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It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can…
— George Washington
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Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions, on some of them. When…
— James Madison
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Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.
— Alexander Hamilton
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Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.
— Alexander Hamilton
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There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . . . . But…
— Alexander Hamilton
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What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only…
— John Dickinson
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For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary…
— Vaclav Havel
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The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.
— Albert Einstein
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I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account.
— Unknown Author
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If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shriek…
— Elizabeth von Arnim
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In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.
— Howard Zinn
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The [Nazi party] should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate it. It must not become a servant of the masses, but…
— Adolf Hitler
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Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle…
— Allan Bloom
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Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Judges . . . rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should...
— Warren E. Burger
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How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he had taken a…
— Harry S. Truman
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Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If…
— Rose Macaulay
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words,…
— Walter Bagehot
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Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.
— Austin O'Malley
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The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion.
— Unknown Author
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The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no effective interrelation and…
— Karl Jaspers
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