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You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
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.
It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
'Moral police' is my new word. I am very against the media doing moral policing, giving opinions on actor's lives. Media should not become moral police; they should just report.
The course of business shapes public opinion.
