Citizens Quote by Martha Gellhorn

Public opinion wins wars.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— William Gilmore Simms

Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion

— Nicolas Gomez Davila

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 shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

— Frank B. Kellogg

Public opinion shapes public policy dramatically.

— Neil Bush

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

— Paul Keating

Public calamity is a mighty leveler

— Edmund Burke

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear…

— Noam Chomsky

public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.

— Sybille Bedford

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

— Henry David Thoreau