Quotes by Robert Peel - Page 1

The police are the public and the public are the police.
Robert Peel / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Police
Policemen
Thought Police
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No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.
Robert Peel / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Ministers
Opinion
Public Opinion
Against
Stand
Public
Minister
Stood
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Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
Robert Peel / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Agitation
Conscience
Law
Mold
Laws
Nation
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Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.
Robert Peel / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Northern Ireland
Provocation
Said
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There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
Robert Peel / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Politics
Facts
Political
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I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.
Robert Peel / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Work
Men
Mind
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The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.
Robert Peel / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Becoming
Distinction
Should
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In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.
Robert Peel / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Calling
Democracy
People
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Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Robert Peel / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Feelings
Folly
Obstinacy
Opinion
Prejudice
Public Opinion
Weakness
Compound
Public
Wrong
Feeling
Newspaper
Paragraphs
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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.
Robert Peel / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Economy
Political
Wages
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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 / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Courage
Men
Indignation
Natural
Prudence
Retrospective
Waste
Burst
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Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?
Robert Peel / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Economics
Fishing
Pool
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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 illusory and contemptible.
Robert Peel / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Art
Government
Hands
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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 / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Government
Ancient
Destroyed
Flood
Opinion
Public Opinion
Reform
Uncertain
Violence
Bill
Brings
Rapid
Reform Bill
Turbulent
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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 / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Government
People
Weakness
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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 / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Acting
Party
Regret
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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 / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Evening
Majesty
Ministers
Particular
Submit
Wednesday
Proposed
Whom
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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.
Robert Peel / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Mean
Numbers
Real
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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 / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Attention
Community
Existence
Giving
Members
Paid
Police
Welfare
Being
Only
Citizen
Every
Full
Public
Duties
Give
Incumbent
Interests
Which
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My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer - how, without inflicting any injury on Canada, I can secure the most substantial benefit to this country, to the manufacturing, to the commercial, and to the agricultural interests. The real way in which we can benefit the working and manufacturing classes is, unquestionably, by removing the burden that presses on the springs of manufactures and commerce.
Robert Peel / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Country
Real
Spring
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