Henry Fielding Quotes

There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.

Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.

I'm very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

Of course, I have privileges that others don't. But, you don't choose where you are born. If you want to hate me for that, I am sorry.

Public opinion must be heard.

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

When you watch CNN and they're giving you news based on tweets that people are sending out, you realize that society is really changing. The collective public have a really big voice that they didn't previously have, and they're influencing the trajectory of how we are socially with one another.

Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!

People blame their environment, their education, their opportunities, their luck, for their condition. They are wrong. There is one person to blame — and only one — THEMSELVES.

May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.

I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired.

Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.

Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.

Publicly criticizing people, even when I don't have the facts, is not that good of an idea.

It's clear that the true problems of our Nation are much deeper - deeper than gasoline lines of energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or recession. And I realize more than ever that as President I need your help. So, I decided to reach out and listen to the voices of America.

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.

Law has been unjustly charged with the whole blame of the calamities resulting from the scheme that bears his name.

The recession is everywhere. We need to be heard. Wouldn't it be great if there could be more referendums so we could have regular voting on specific points?

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.

Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.