If the spirit of the Reform Bill implies merely, a careful review of institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper, combining, with the firm maintenance of established rights, the correction of proved abuses, and the redress of real… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
If the spirit of the Reform Bill implies merely, a careful review of institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper, combining, with… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
I shall leave a name execrated by every monopolist...but it may be...sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill in the abodes of those whose lot… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
If wheat were at this moment subject to a duty of twenty shillings the quarter, and if Indian corn were virtually excluded, next winter… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
I feel and know that the Repeal must lead to the dismemberment of this great empire; must make Great Britain a fourth-rate power in… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
