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
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The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the... Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
The police are the public and the public are the police.
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the... The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual... No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.
The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become... My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to... Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the... Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an... There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
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