Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.

Wonderful ''Force of Public Opinion!'' We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of ''influence'' it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.