Quotes by Public Opinion No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion. Robert Peel ministers public-opinion opinion The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood! Robert Peel public-opinion reform government The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you... Rush Limbaugh public-opinion depressing tools 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. Samuel Butler public-opinion meat principles Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him. Samuel Johnson public-opinion men boys About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right. Samuel Johnson public-opinion long thinking 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. Sean MacBride public-opinion use peace I don't know what is stronger or what is weaker.The whole language of strength and weaknesses is irrelevant,because when you use arms you do not use ballots, and public opinion is unimportant, and they shoot at their opponents. Shimon Peres public-opinion stronger weakness To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion. Sidney Hook servant public-opinion interest The only remaining superpower is international public opinion. Simon Anholt international public-opinion opinion 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. Stendhal public-opinion united-states america As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own. Stewart Udall ships public-opinion wind public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good. Sybille Bedford public-opinion matter doe And fourthly there is a major shift in public opinion and attitude to accommodate to the post-9/11 mentality and the Bush administration's penchant for secrecy. I think the public has simply become increasingly accustomed to being turned away from vital information and is protesting less and less. You have some squeaky wheels out there, but I don't think they're representative of the population at large. Ted Gup public-opinion attitude thinking The court doesn't follow public opinion. The court's views are radically out of step with public opinion. Ted Cruz public-opinion views steps Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front? Thomas Carlyle public-opinion degrees wind When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. Thomas Jefferson public-opinion often-is views If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism. Thomas Jefferson public-opinion practice law The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. Thomas Jefferson public-opinion world moving Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core. Timothy Thomas Fortune public-opinion expression law «1234567891011»