If you had to constitute new societies, you might on moral and social grounds prefer cornfields to cotton factories, an agricultural to a manufacturing population. But our lot is cast, and we cannot recede.


Letter to J. W. Croker (27 July 1842).

Robert Peel Quotes

If you had to constitute new societies, you might on moral and social grounds prefer cornfields to cotton factories, an agricultural to a...

If you had to constitute new societies, you might on moral and social grounds prefer cornfields to cotton factories, an agricultural to a...

If you had to constitute new societies, you might on moral and social grounds prefer cornfields to cotton factories, an agricultural to a...

If you had to constitute new societies, you might on moral and social grounds prefer cornfields to cotton factories, an agricultural to a...