Accustomed Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.

— Thomas Jefferson

The world is governed by opinion.

— Anonymous

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

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

“When you enter the realm of politics and ideology, the distinction between opinion and fact starts to cloud, and the stakes become dauntingly high;…

— Michael Hirschorn

A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.

— Anonymous

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

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

— Bertrand Russell

“[P]eople only make decisions based on what they know. You can have everyone in the country vote freely and democratically and still come up…

— Tracy Hickman

What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted,…

— Walter Lippmann