In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
I believe the masses everywhere want peace.
Public opinion is the most potent monarch this world knows.
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.
If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it.
A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded, cannot be safely disregarded.
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude.
