Robert Peel
Robert Peel
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronetwas a British statesman and member of the Conservative Party, who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdomand 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 February 1788
giving community 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.
facts politics seems
There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
country spring real
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.
said northern-ireland provocation
Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.
regret party acting
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.
government people france
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.
government bills violence
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!
feelings public-opinion prejudice
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
law mold agitation
Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
fishing pool empty
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?