Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government practically just so much.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matter – for that I have determined for myself.
Public discussion is helping to doom slavery. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.
In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently, he who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.
Public opinion in this country is everything.
No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.
A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.
