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.
There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics. - Robert Peel
There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
- Robert Peel
In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people. - Robert Peel
In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.
Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws. - Robert Peel
Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. - Robert Peel
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion. - Robert Peel
No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.
I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week. - Robert Peel
I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.
Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illus… - Robert Peel
Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illus…
The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct. - Robert Peel
The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.
The police are the public and the public are the police. - Robert Peel
The police are the public and the public are the police.
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