"The distinction of being without an honour is……" — Robert Peel
"The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct."
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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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I feel and know that the Repeal must lead to the dismemberment of this great empire; must make Great Britain…
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More Become Extinct Quotes
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I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find…
— David Attenborough
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If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.
— Peter Benchley
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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been…
— Anton Chekhov
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The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say…
— Bertrand Russell
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It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I…
— Geronimo
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It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Christians are a lot like dinosaurs - about to become extinct.
— Marilyn Manson
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The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do…
— Julius Caesar
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I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to…
— John Banville
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That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but…
— B. C. Forbes
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We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem…
— James Lovelock
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Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.
— Dr. Seuss
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