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

  Giving, Community, Police

  "Introduction to Criminal Justice". Book by Larry Siegel (p. 202), January 5, 2009.

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

  Robert Peel

  Feelings, Weakness, Public Opinion

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• The police are the public and the public are the police.

  Robert Peel

  Police, Thought Police, Policemen

  "Introduction to Criminal Justice" by Larry Siegel, Cengage Learning, (p. 202), January 5, 2009.

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• In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.

  Robert Peel

  People, Democracy, Calling

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• The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual punishment. I despair of any remedy but that which I wish I could hope for - a great reduction in the amount of crime.

  Robert Peel

  Real, Mean, Numbers

  Robert Peel, George Peel (Hon.) (1853). “Sir Robert Peel: From His Private Papers”

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• 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.

  Robert Peel

  Art, Government, Hands

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

  Robert Peel

  Public Opinion, Opinion, Ministers

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• I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.

  Robert Peel

  Work, Men, Mind

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

  Robert Peel

  Political, Politics, Facts

  Sir Robert Peel, George Peel (Hon.), Charles Stuart Parker (1899). “Sir Robert Peel: From his private papers”

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

  Robert Peel

  Law, Mold, Agitation

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• Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.

  Robert Peel

  Said, Northern Ireland, Provocation

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• The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.

  Robert Peel

  Becoming, Should, Distinction

  Sir Robert Peel, George Peel (Hon.), Charles Stuart Parker (1899). “Sir Robert Peel: From his private papers”

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• 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?

  Robert Peel

  Fishing, Pool, Economics

  Robert Peel, W.T. Haly (1850). “The Opinions of Sir Robert Peel, Expressed in Parliament and in Public”, p.145

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• My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer - how, without inflicting any injury on Canada, I can secure the most substantial benefit to this country, to the manufacturing, to the commercial, and to the agricultural interests. The real way in which we can benefit the working and manufacturing classes is, unquestionably, by removing the burden that presses on the springs of manufactures and commerce.

  Robert Peel

  Country, Spring, Real

  Speech in the House of Commons, March 11, 1842.

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• 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

  Courage, Men, Waste

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• I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.

  Robert Peel

  Political, Wages, Economy

  Sir Robert Peel (1853). “The speeches of the late Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, bart: delivered in the House of Commons”, p.601

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• 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.

  Robert Peel

  Regret, Party, Acting

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• 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, Public Opinion, Reform

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• My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.

  Robert Peel

  Government, People, Weakness

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