List of Robert Peel Quotes

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Robert Peel
Total Quotes 19
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 People Weakness
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!
Government Public Opinion Reform
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.
Regret Party Acting
I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.
Political Wages Economy
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.
Courage Men Waste
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?
Fishing Pool Economics
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.
Country Spring Real
Much is said about english severity, but not a word about irish provocation.
Said Northern Ireland Provocation
The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.
Becoming Should Distinction
Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
Law Mold Agitation
There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
Political Politics Facts
I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.
Work Men Mind
  • Born: February 5, 1788
  • Died: July 2, 1850
  • Occupation: Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
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