Robert Peel Quotes

Robert Peel — English Leader born on February 05, 1778, died on July 02, 1850

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet was a British statesman and member of the Conservative Party, who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and twice served as Home Secretary. He is regarded as the father of the modern British police and as one of the founders of the modern Conservative Party... (wikipedia)

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.

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

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

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 Quotes

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