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

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

Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illusory and contemptible.

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

I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.

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.

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?