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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.

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

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.

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.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.

Israel does not care about the international public opinion.