Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they’re growing.
Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
To be independent of public opinion.To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.