Top 15 Robert Peel Quotes (2024 Update)

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

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

— Robert Peel

Robert Peel Quote: “The police are the public and the public are the police.”

2. “The police are the public and the public are the police.”

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Robert Peel Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Robert Peel Quote: “No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.”

4. “No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.”

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Robert Peel Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Robert Peel Quote: “I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.”

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

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Robert Peel Quote: “In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.”

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

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Robert Peel Quote: “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?”

8. “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?”

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Robert Peel Quote: “The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.”

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

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Robert Peel Quote: “Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.”

10. “Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.”

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Robert Peel Quote: “Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.”

11. “Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.”

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Robert Peel Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Robert Peel Quote: “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.”

13. “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

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

14. “There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.”

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Robert Peel Quote: “I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.”

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

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Robert Peel Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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Robert Peel Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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Robert Peel Quote: “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!”

18. “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

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