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

My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.

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

Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.

The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

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