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

I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.

However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much.

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.

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 police are the public and the public are the police.

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