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    Robert Peel

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


    — Robert Peel

    #feeling #folly #newspaper #obstinacy #opinion

    There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics. ↗


    — Robert Peel

    #few #least #me #politics #seem

    Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws. ↗


    — Robert Peel

    #conscience #laws #marshalling #mold #nation

    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. ↗


    — Robert Peel

    #burst #courage #his #indignation #man

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


    — Robert Peel

    #could #ever #minister #opinion #public

    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

    #evening #had #her #i #majesty

    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! ↗


    — Robert Peel

    #ancient #bill #brings #destroyed #flood






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    Woodhouse Moor Leeds. 5 million run up by the whigs. In the age of laissez-faire government taxes were small and subsidies or direct economic interference were almost non-existent.

    Sir Robert Peel 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850) was a British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 December 1834 to 8 April 1835 and also from 30 August 1841 to 29 June 1846. As Prime Minister Peel issued the Tamworth Manifesto (1834) during his brief first period in office leading to the formation of the Conservative Party out of the shattered Tory Party; in his second administration he repealed the Corn Laws.

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