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Robert Peel Inspirational Quotes (14)

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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.
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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!
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Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.
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Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illusory and contemptible.
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I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.
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The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.
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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?
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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.
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There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
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The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual punishment. I despair of any remedy but that which I wish I could hope for - a great reduction in the amount of crime.
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I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.
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In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.
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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.
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Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
Robert Peel