Public Opinion Quotes

Public opinion in this country is everything.

A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

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.

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration

This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.

To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.

We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

The big powers are traveling on the dangerous road of armament. The signpost just ahead of us is 'Oblivion.' Can the march on this road be stopped? Yes, if public opinion uses the power it now has.

The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

The only remaining superpower is international public opinion.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.

Based on current surveys of public opinion in the United States, it turns out that the majority of Americans think I've done a pretty good job.

Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.

One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round.

According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

No state empowered to do what is supposedly necessary will restrain itself to those things. It will expand as much as public opinion will tolerate.

The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole process of human history.

Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.

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.

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.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.

Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.

Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion.

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion.

I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.

It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to ensure that world leaders act.

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

That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.