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Benjamin Franklin
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| "In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public
opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened." | |
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George Washington
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| "Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can
fail; without it nothing can succeed." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "The people are to be taken in small doses." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "The public is a ferocious beast ? one must either chain it up or
flee from it." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except
genius." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "Today"s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or
books, and there is some evidence that they can"t read them either." | |
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Gore Vidal
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| "When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins
in his conduct." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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