No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.
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Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.Robert Peel
It's nice to know when people get together in a community that stuff can get done that makes a difference.
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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.
Robert Peel
On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring with all those whom I proposed to submit to her Majesty as Ministers.
Robert Peel
There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
Robert Peel
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