"Can there be a more lamentable picture than……" — Robert Peel
"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?"
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Robert Peel
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21 Quotes by Robert Peel
Robert Peel has 21 quotes on this site.
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The police are the public and the public are the police
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Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
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No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.
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Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
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The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with…
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I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent,…
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But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his…
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The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who…
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There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
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On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had…
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I feel and know that the Repeal must lead to the dismemberment of this great empire; must make Great Britain…
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If the spirit of the Reform Bill implies merely, a careful review of institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a…
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More Bottomless Quotes
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one of 97 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price…
— James A. Baldwin
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
— Pema Chodron
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Law is a bottomless pit.
— John Arbuthnot
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A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in…
— King James I
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The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation…
— Lance Armstrong
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Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
— John Arbuthnot
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We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them…
— Daniel Quinn
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It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want…
— Joan Didion
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People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend…
— Michael Robotham
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had…
— Willa Cather
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Inspiration is really all around us. I pay attention to a lot of different fields. I stay up on current…
— Caterina Fake
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Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.
— John Bowlby
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