Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Public opinion is the most potent monarch this world knows.

Before some things can be politically expedient, they must first become popular.

Towering over Presidents and State Governors, over Congress and State Legislatures, over conventions and the vast machinery of party, public opinion stands out in the United States, as the great source of Power.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.

In America, public opinion is the leader.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

The public is always right.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

The court of public opinion is open 24 hours a day.

In a democracy, as a matter of course, every effort is made to seize upon and create publick opinion, which is, substantially, securing power.

… the irresistible power of concentrated public opinion

Public opinion in this country is everything.

Mass opinion has acquired mounting power in this century. It has shown itself to be a dangerous master of decisions when the stakes are life and death.

It's on the people to dictate what is relevant and what is moving.

No man can honestly sit there and say he doesn't care about what people think, doesn't care if he's got the support of the British public or British fans.

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

The public is never wrong.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

The majority in this country have not seen anything wrong with Zuma. I go with the overwhelming feeling of this country. If the majority say, 'Zuma, do this,' I will do it.

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.