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

The police are the public and the public are the police the police being only members of the public ...

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But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his ti...

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Public opinion is a compound of folly weakness prejudice wrong feeling right feeling obstinacy ...

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Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Born: 1788-02-05

Died: 1850-07-02

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850) was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835 and 1841–1846) simultaneously serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834-1835) and twice as Home Secretary (1822–1827 and 1828–1830). He is regarded as the father of modern English policing, owing to his founding of the Metropolitan Police Service. Peel was one of the founders of the modern Conservative Party.More

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