No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

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

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

In America, public opinion is the leader.

As if there wasn't a thousand things that were never heard.

It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.