Robert Peel

“The capacity of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon public approval of their actions and behaviour.”

“The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.”

“The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it.”

“I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of good will in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labor.”

“No minister ever stood, or could stand, against the House of Commons.”

“The great instrument of the degradation of man is the substitution of symbols for things.”

“Ireland is my chief difficulty.”

“I want no array of force. I want the moral support of the country.”

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

“The great art of statesmanship is to know when to lead and when to follow.”

“The great object of the institution of civil government is the preservation of the lives, liberties, and property of the people.”