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• Public opinion flourishes where there are no ideas.
• When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytto
• Public opinion in this country is everything. -- Abraham Lincol
• Public figures such as actors, politicians, and athletes should expect people to be interested in their private lives.
  When they seek a public role, they should expect that they will lose at least some of their privacy....
• Fundies and Undies. Neither should air in public.
• One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• Quote #335 One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of priso
  but anything beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny....
• The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced
  the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled....
• When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...