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Robert Peel

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.

Robert Peel

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No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Robert Peel

genius robert peel

I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.

Robert Peel

genius robert peel

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.

Robert Peel

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In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.

Robert Peel

genius robert peel

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

Robert Peel

genius robert peel

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