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The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously arranged.

Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.

We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness.

The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

. . . for thou art a stiff-necked people. . .

The great unwashed.

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.

The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public?

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

The fickle populace always change with the prince.

Hence ye profane; I hate ye all; Both the great vulgar, and the small.

This many-headed monster, Multitude.

The key of the fields .

The multitude is always in the wrong.

For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might? Nor is the people's judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few.

The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires of the crowd and their unreasonable notions.