The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual punishment. I despair of any remedy but that which I wish I could hope for - a great reduction in the amount of crime.
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.
- 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.
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.
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.
No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion. - Robert Peel
No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.
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…
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.
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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