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

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

- Robert Peel

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

- Robert Peel

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

- 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…

- Robert Peel

I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.

- Robert Peel

The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.

- Robert Peel

The police are the public and the public are the police.

- Robert Peel