Quote by Walter Bagehot
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other mens thoughts, to speak other mens words, to follow other mens habits. – Walter Bagehot

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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. – Walter Bagehot

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Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns. – Walter Bagehot

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People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the – Proverb

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Public opinion is a second conscience. – William R. Alger

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Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us. – Marcus Antonius

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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. – Jane Austen

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