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Letter "P" » public opinion
«Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think»
«The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority»
Author: George Bancroft
| About:
Government
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development, good authority, persons, property, public opinion, public property, rests
«Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
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exacts, permeated, permeating, public opinion
«There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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opinion, public, public opinion, published, publishes
«Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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Opinions
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basis, formed, public opinion, underlie, underlies, underlying
«Public opinion in this country is everything.»
«Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Opinions
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compared, determines, indicates, public opinion, tyrant
«There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion»
«Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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constantly, consult, monarch, monarchs, public opinion, thermometer, the Monarch
«The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.»
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