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What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.


Alfred Russel Wallace


#educated #individual #laws #marriage #matters

I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.


Curtis LeMay


#been #country #efficient #fed #hands

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.


Walter Lippmann


#beset #citizen #compliment #evidence #good

But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.


James McGreevey


#being #best #closet #election #first

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.


James F. Cooper


#democracies #exhibit #form #law #masses

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!


Robert Peel


#ancient #bill #brings #destroyed #flood

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.


Grantland Rice


#follows #his #ignorant #makes #man

Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.


Dilma Rousseff


#commitment #due #experienced #expressed #fact

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.


Edwin Hubbel Chapin


#because #bottom #bravery #courage #cowardice

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.


Mackenzie King


#bad #bad government #government #last #likely






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