“Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.”
Warren E. Burger
“Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice”
Abraham Lincoln
“There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.”
Winston Churchill
“Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.”
Oscar Wilde
“Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.”
Mark Twain
“No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained”
“Public opinion in this country is everything.”