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The course of business shapes public opinion.
Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
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.
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
