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“Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of the representative government, cannot exist.”

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Book:Considerations on Representative Government

Source: Considerations on Representative Government

“A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying an opinion, to a man's tongue, make him the representative of that opinion; and at the close of any battle for principles, his name will be found neither among the dead nor among the wounded, but among the missing.”

Men Found Politics Names Opinion Principles Missing Politician Battle Tongue Representatives Wounded

Author:Edwin Percy Whipple

“Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members of Parliament are only representatives of the citizens. They cannot represent apathy and indifference. They can play the part allotted to them only if they represent intelligence and public spiritness.”

Ifs Play Opinion Democracy Higher Citizens Members Indifference Apathy Representatives Parliament Public Opinion Higher Power Members Of Parliament

Author:Eric Williams

“And fourthly there is a major shift in public opinion and attitude to accommodate to the post-9/11 mentality and the Bush administration's penchant for secrecy. I think the public has simply become increasingly accustomed to being turned away from vital information and is protesting less and less. You have some squeaky wheels out there, but I don't think they're representative of the population at large.”

Thinking Attitude Opinion Information Majors Population Administration Posts Wheels Mentality Representatives Accustomed Public Opinion Secrecy Accommodate Squeaky Wheel

Author:Ted Gup

“My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until in a petty three months' campaign it knocked to pieces a poor, decrepit, bankrupt old state like Spain. To hold such an opinion as that is to abandon all American standards, to put shame and scorn on all that our ancestors tried to build up here, and to go over to the standards of which Spain is a representative.”

Source: War and Other Essays

“It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.”

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Book:A Letter to a Noble Lord and Other Writings

Source: A Letter to a Noble Lord and Other Writings