"The police are the public and the public……" — Robert Peel
"The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence."
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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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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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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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