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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…
• The police are the public and the public are the police
• Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
• No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.
• Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
• The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid,…
• I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes,…
• But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in…
• The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid…
• There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
• On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity…
• I feel and know that the Repeal must lead to the dismemberment of this great empire; must make Great Britain a fourth-rate…

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