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«Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.»
«Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.»
«Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.»
«One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.»
«Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.»
«One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny»
«One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.»
«Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced»
«Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.»
«Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.»

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