Public Opinion Polls

Famous quotes containing the words public, opinion and/or polls:

“Utah is the only State that gives condemned men a choice between death by hanging or before a firing squad. Most prisoners prefer the firing squad, but one obstinate convict in 1912 elected to be hanged because “hanging is more expensive to the state.””
—State of Utah, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands, but true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in courts. It begins in woman’s soul.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)