#public opinion

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls. ↗

— Dan Rather

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The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion. ↗

— Elihu Root

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We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

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Public opinion is a second conscience. ↗

— William R. Alger

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There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion. ↗

— Steve Forbes

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Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

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