“The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.”

“We cannot resist everything; we can only choose the forces to which we will submit.”

“Men have differed in opinion, and been divided into parties by these opinions, from the first origin of societies; and in all governments where they have been permitted freely to think and to speak. the same political parties which now agitate the U.S. have existed through all time. Whether the power of the people, or that of the (best men; nobles) should prevail, were questions which kept the states of Greece and rome in eternal convulsions...”

“The aid agencies are not run by fools. they are full of intelligent people severely constrained by what public opinion permits.”

“There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.”

“If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.”