What the multitude says is so, or soon will be.
See Otis Singletary for a similar modern view
No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.
The instinct of the people is right.
But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.
The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?
Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
