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Robert Peel

(1788–1850) Politician

25 quotes in 162 categories

Robert Peel was a politician, best known for A letter to the Right Hon. Robert Peel, M.P. for the University of Oxford.

Quick Facts About Robert Peel

Born: February 5, 1788
Died: July 2, 1850
Profession: Politician
Notable works: A letter to the Right Hon. Robert Peel, M.P. for the University of Oxford

About Robert Peel

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, was a British Conservative statesman who twice was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and simultaneously was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–1835). He previously was Home Secretary twice. He is regarded as the father of modern British policing, owing to his founding of the Metropolitan Police while he was Home Secretary. Peel was one of the founders of the modern Conservative Party.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Robert Peel

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

Becoming

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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…

Deficiency

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Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.

Ireland

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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…

Advantage

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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…

Belief

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If the spirit of the Reform Bill implies merely, a careful review of institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper,…

Religion

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On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity…

Day

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

Body

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The police are the public and the public are the police

Funny

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

Ministers

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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…

Courage

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I shall leave a name execrated by every monopolist...but it may be...sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill in the abodes of those…

Daily bread

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If wheat were at this moment subject to a duty of twenty shillings the quarter, and if Indian corn were virtually excluded,…

Five years

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I feel and know that the Repeal must lead to the dismemberment of this great empire; must make Great Britain a fourth-rate…

Nature

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

Agitation

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

Compounds

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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,…

Authority

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If you had to constitute new societies, you might on moral and social grounds prefer cornfields to cotton factories, an agricultural to…

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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…

Arise

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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,…

Ancient

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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…

Acting

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In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.

Arise

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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…

Amount

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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…

Attention

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There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

Facts

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