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

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

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.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.

When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

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

The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.