"I have read all that has been written……" — Robert Peel
"I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes."
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Robert Peel
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21 Quotes by Robert Peel
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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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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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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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