Robert Peel Quotes.
There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.
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.
Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.
Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illusory and contemptible.
The police are the public and the public are the police.
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.
However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much.
I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.
The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.
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.
