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Topic·Public opinion✕clear

It is the Folly of too many, to mistake the Eccho of a London Coffee-house for the Voice of the Kingdom.

1711

★ 1.2

Public opinion's always in advance of the law.

John Galsworthy

1922

★ 1.9

Essay · Philosophical literature

Thus to be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

1821

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

Public opinion in this country is everything.

Abraham Lincoln

1859

★ 2.2

Political debate

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln-Douglas Debates · 1858

★ 2.3

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if He had taken a poll in the land of Israel?

1954

★ 3.5

Essay · Newspaper · Political literature

The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.

1945

★ 3.6

The public seldom forgive twice.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

1773

★ 4.5

Play · Tragedy (play)

He’s loved of the distracted multitude, Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet · 1616

★ 7.0