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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

Maybe politically it wasn't wise but when people have different view points I think the public has a right to hear it and the public has a right to make decisions based on those view points.

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.