23 Quotes by Robert Peel

I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.

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

The police are the public and the public are the police

The police are the public and the public are the police.

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.