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Robert Peel Quotes

On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring with all those whom I proposed to submit to her Majesty as Ministers Picture Quote #1

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood Picture Quote #1

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs Picture Quote #1

The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct Picture Quote #1

My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength Picture Quote #1

However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much Picture Quote #1

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Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws Picture Quote #1

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion Picture Quote #1

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics Picture Quote #1

The police are the public and the public are the police Picture Quote #1

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings Picture Quote #1

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence Picture Quote #1

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I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes Picture Quote #1

I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week Picture Quote #1

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people Picture Quote #1

If you had to constitute new societies, you might on moral and social grounds prefer cornfields to cotton factories, an agricultural to a manufacturing population. But our lot is cast, and we cannot recede Picture Quote #1

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On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring with all those whom I proposed to submit to her Majesty as Ministers (Robert Peel Quotes) The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood (Robert Peel Quotes) Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs (Robert Peel Quotes) The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct. (Robert Peel Quotes) My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength. (Robert Peel Quotes) However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much. (Robert Peel Quotes) Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws (Robert Peel Quotes) No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion (Robert Peel Quotes) There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics (Robert Peel Quotes) The police are the public and the public are the police (Robert Peel Quotes) But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings (Robert Peel Quotes) The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence (Robert Peel Quotes) I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes (Robert Peel Quotes) I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week (Robert Peel Quotes) In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people (Robert Peel Quotes) If you had to constitute new societies, you might on moral and social grounds prefer cornfields to cotton factories, an agricultural to a manufacturing population. But our lot is cast, and we cannot recede (Robert Peel Quotes)