"No minister ever stood, or could stand, against……" — Robert Peel

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

— Robert Peel

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21 Quotes by Robert Peel

Robert Peel has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest…
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.
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…
I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent,…
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his…
The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who…
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…
I feel and know that the Repeal must lead to the dismemberment of this great empire; must make Great Britain…
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 Ever Stood Quotes

This quote is filed under Ever Stood Quotes, one of 14 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

The passing of time and all of its crimes is making me sad again. The passing of time and all… — Steven Morrissey
The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that… — Sargent Shriver
You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life. — Tina Turner
In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever… — Malcolm X
Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence… — Homer
If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting… — Oswald Chambers
Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart,… — Jim Butcher
Have you ever stood where a stream spills into a river? The two become one. They laugh over the stones… — Catherine Anderson
I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather. — Arthur Conan Doyle
No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure… — Henry David Thoreau
You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on… — C.S. Lewis
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence. — Lord Acton

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