Public opinion Quote by William T. Sherman Download Open image ““Vox populi, vox Humbug.”” — William T. Sherman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Public opinion Vox populi
“We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“True democracy speaks; it does not shout. It listens to reason, not the roar of populism.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
The politics of that year [2004] are old now, but the problem remains the same, the real culture clash of American life. It's between… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“Chant back to us our platitudes about democracy, greatness, and freedom. Vote in our rigged corporate elections. Send your young men and women to… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Populism, literally, means speaking for 'the people.' In practice it means demagoguery. — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
The rise of populism has steadily coalesced movements of millions of people around its divisive us-against-them rhetoric, motivating so many more people to become… — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
“Behind the facade of elected government are a bunch of corporate controlled gangsters running the country.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Populism is ultimately sustained by the frustrated exasperation of ordinary people, by the cry "I don't know what's going on, but I've just had… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“These men flocked to the plains, and were rather stimulated than retarded by the danger of an Indian war. This was another potent agency… — William T. Sherman Copy Share Image
“In treading upon the ashes of dead men in Italy, Egypt - on the banks of the Bosphorus, one almost despairs to think how… — William T. Sherman Copy Share Image
“General Polk, who was dignified and corpulent, walked back slowly, not wishing to appear too hurried or cautious in the presence of the men,… — William T. Sherman Copy Share Image
“I have for some days held and controlled every avenue by which the people and garrison of Savannah can be supplied, and I am… — William T. Sherman Copy Share Image
“I returning South on horseback, by Rome, Allatoona, Marietta, Atlanta, and Madison, Georgia. Stockton stopped at Marietta, where he resided. Hammond took the cars… — William T. Sherman Copy Share Image
“wagons to move the camp of a regiment from one place to another, and some of the camps had bakeries and cooking establishments that… — William T. Sherman Copy Share Image
“I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.” — William T. Sherman Copy Share Image
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe the role that people like myself have played in the transformation of public opinion has been by persistently presenting a different point… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Public opinion in the United States has shifted significantly, not just outside but also within the Jewish community. — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was doing work… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts… — George Washington Copy Share Image
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions, on some of them.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Ignoring party leaders in order to sway public opinion may work in countries where elected representatives are responsive to their constituencies. But in Mexico,… — Denise Dresser Copy Share Image
You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion. — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image