Robert Peel Quotes
'No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.'
'Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.'
'Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs'
'There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics'
Born in Bury, Lancashire
More about Robert Peel
Links:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/peel_sir_robert.sh BBC Profile
http://www.met.police.uk/history/peel.htm Metropolitan Police History
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