Appropriate Quote by James K. Polk

Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.

— Nick Clegg

The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.

— Alexander Hamilton

Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

The express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution.

— James Madison

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

— Abraham Lincoln

We govern what the public think about.

— Edward Bernays

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

Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary,…

— Alexander Hamilton

The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude…

— Alexander Hamilton

What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the state powers…

— Thomas Jefferson