Robert Peel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

police are the people and people are the police

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