He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine.

I then thought him one of the most diffident and worst plagued men I ever saw.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained