Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. Adlai Stevenson II
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms. Horace Mann
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. James Madison
You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you. Brian Mulroney
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. Edmund Burke
Jews have always controlled the business [...]. The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada [...] is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind. Henry Ford