"It is too rarely recognized that the concept of "public" is absolutely irreducible to the "state." The term "publicum…"

"The public revealed its single most predictable trait: fickleness."

"When the public narrative significantly diverges from lived experience, the only outcome is more frustration among th…"

"Nec audiendi sunt qui solent dicere vox populi, vox dei; cum tumultus vulgi semper insaniæ proxima sit."

"Vox populi habet aliquid divinum: nam quomo do aliter tot capita in unum conspirare possint?"

"The great unwashed."

"The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the spec…"

"The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny."

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

"The way is not made easy for those who would defend the public interest."