Robert Peel Quotes

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.
Robert Peel

Time, Give, Attention

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Robert Peel

Feeling, Wrong, Opinion

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
Robert Peel

Politics, Few, Facts

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
Robert Peel

Nation, Conscience, Laws

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
Robert Peel

Time, Strength, Courage

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

Opinion, Against, Stand

On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring with all those whom I proposed to submit to her Majesty as Ministers.
Robert Peel

Evening, Her, Point

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!
Robert Peel

Government, Opinion, Violence

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Leader

Born: February 5, 1778

Died: July 2, 1850

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