The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are ...not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No ...president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What worries me, especially, is that public opinion over here is patting itself on the back every morning and thanking God for the... Atlantic Ocean (and the Pacific Ocean). We greatly underestimate the serious implications to our own future.... Things move with such terrific speed these days, that it is really essential to us to think in broader terms and, in effect, to warn the American people that they, too, should think of possible ultimate results in Europe and the Far East.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate int...o it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the "superior morality" of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness ...to deny that this "superior morality" is properly rather an "inferior criminality" produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wonderful "Force of Public Opinion!" We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realise t...he 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?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit ...their tyranny.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »