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"As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it."
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"Public opinion is to an unconventional idea - what abortion is to sperm."
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"Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right."
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"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style."
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"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."
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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions. (1953)"
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"We never waste space saying, "On the one hand." We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice."
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"However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage."
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"They can say I have an opinion about something."
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"For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion."
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"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."
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"The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else."
People
"War is fear cloaked in courage."
War
"The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names."
War
"I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected."
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"I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for."
Being
"Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country."
Nation
"We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning."
War
"The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me."
Leadership
"We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong."
Nation
"I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student."
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