An automaton cannot arouse the public interest. A leader, a fighter, a dictator, can.
Campaign pledges...ought to carry something of the guarantee principle and money-back policy that an honorable business institution carries with the sale of its goods.
Governments...depend upon acquiescent public opinion for the success of their efforts and, in fact, government is government only by virtue of public acquiescence.
I often wonder whether the politicians of the future, who are responsible for maintaining the prestige and effectiveness of their party, will not endeavor to train politicians who are at the same time propagandists.
Public opinion was made or changed formerly by tribal chiefs, by kings, by religious leaders. Today the privilege of attempting to sway public opinion is everyone’s.
The emotions of oratory have been worn down through long years of overuse.
The great enemy of any attempt to change men’s habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by inertia.
The great political problem in our modern democracy is how to induce our leaders to lead.
The steam engine, the multiple press, and the public school, that trio of the industrial revolution, have taken the power away from kings and given it to the people.
We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.