Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion which will be intelligent and discriminating as to what cases really are civil liberties cases and what questions really are involved in those cases.

About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.

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

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently he who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.

All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

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

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

A man must know how to brave public opinion, a woman how to submit to it.