Asks Quote by Ned Kelly

Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest…

— Cardinal Richelieu

Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy…

— Marquis de Sade

Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger-- without even knowing it is happening to you-- of slipping into the fatal error…

— Edward Albee

I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just…

— Thomas Jefferson

“With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal…

— James Madison

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

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

— William Hazlitt

Public opinion's always in advance of the law.

— John Galsworthy

My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to…

— Benjamin Franklin

Public sentiment is not observed. The wealthy and powerful gain a ready hearing, but the plodding, suffering, unorganized complaining multitude are spurned and derided.

— James B. Weaver