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

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?

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.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

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.