Quotes about Robert Peel

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I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. "Orders of merit," said he, "were the proper rewards of the military" (the desolators of the world in all ages). "Men of science are better left to the applause of their own hearts." Most learned legislator! Most liberal cotton-spinner! Was your title the proper reward of military prowess? Pity, you hold not the dungeon-keys of an English Inquisition! Perhaps Science, like Creeds, would flourish best under a little persecution.

John Joseph Griffin

Of British statesman Robert Peel:

Wanting imagination he lacked prescience…His judgement was faultless provided he had not to deal with the future.

Benjamin Disraeli

The right honorable gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing and walked away with their clothes.

Benjamin Disraeli

Of Robert Peel's smile:

Like the silver plate on a coffin.

John Philpot Curran

There you [Sir Robert Peel] sit, doing penance for the disingenuousness of years.

Thomas Babington Macaulay