"Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them."
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"Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice."
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"What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment."
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"When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground."
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"The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world."
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"Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force."
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"A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded."
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"I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience."
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"The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep he waters pure."
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"The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America."
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"To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage."
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"For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion."
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"We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body."
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"I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines."
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"Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential."
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"Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much."
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"Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it."
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"The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered."
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"What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations."
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"Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him."
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