Legislature Quote by Charles Dudley Warner

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— George Orwell

We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

— Ernestine Rose

Opinion is a powerful party, bold, and without measure.

— Michel de Montaigne

Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Public opinion is the greatest force for good, when it happens to be on our side

— William Gilmore Simms

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

— Mark Twain

To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to…

— John Stuart Mill

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

— Henrik Ibsen

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

— Elbert Hubbard