"I feel and know that the Repeal must……" — Robert Peel
"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 Europe, and Ireland a savage wilderness."
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21 Quotes by Robert Peel
Robert Peel has 21 quotes on this site.
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Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest…
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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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If the spirit of the Reform Bill implies merely, a careful review of institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a…
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