It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value. — Alexander Hamilton. American Founding Father (1755–1804)
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.