Name: The Dangers which Menace States
Author: Robert Peel

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Robert Peel, The Dangers which Menace States (1831)

“ Let us never be tempted to resign the well-tempered freedom with which we enjoy, in the ridiculous pursuit of the wild liberty which France has established. What avails that liberty that has neither justice nor wisdom for its companions - which neither brings peace nor prosperity in its train? It was the duty of the King's government to abstain from agitating this question at such a period as the present - to abstain from the excitement throughout this land of that conflict - God grant that it may only be a moral conflict! ”

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Robert Peel, The Dangers which Menace States (1831)

“ Let us hope that there are limits to their powers of mischief. They have, like the giant enemy of the Philistines, lighted three hundred brands, and scattered through the country discord and dismay; but God forbid that they should, like him, have the power to concentrate in death all the energies that belong to life, and to signalize their own destruction by bowing to the earth the pillars of that sacred edifice, which contains within its walls, according even to their own admission, 'the noblest society of freemen in the world'. ”

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Robert Peel, The Dangers which Menace States (1831)

“ Up to this hour, no one has pretended that we shall gain anything by the change, excepting, indeed, that we shall conciliate the public favour. Why, no doubt, you cannot propose to share your power with half a million of men without gaining some popularity - without purchasing by such a bribe some portion of goodwill. ”

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Robert Peel, The Dangers which Menace States (1831)

“ The ambition of military conquerors - of men endeared, by success, to disciplined armies, never have endangered, and never could endanger the supremacy of the law, or master the control of public opinion. ”

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Robert Peel, The Dangers which Menace States (1831)

“ Other states have fallen from the too great influence of a military spirit, and the absorption of power by standing armies. What is the character of the armies which our commanders led to victory? The most formidable engines that skill or valour could direct against a foreign enemy ”

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Robert Peel, The Dangers which Menace States (1831)

“ But these are vulgar arts of government; others will outbid you, not now, but at no remote period - they will offer votes and power to a million of men, will quote your precedent for the concession, and will carry your principles to their legitimate and natural consequences. ”

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Robert Peel, The Dangers which Menace States (1831)

“ In this country we have had to encounter severe trials, and have encountered them with uniform success. Amid foreign wars, the shock of disputed successions, rebellion at home, extreme distress, the bitter contention of parties, the institutions of this country have stood uninjured. ”

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Robert Peel, The Dangers which Menace States (1831)

“ We should do well to consider, before we consent to the condemnation of own institutions, what are the dangers which menace states with ruin or decay. Compare our fate with other countries of Europe during the period of the last century and a half. Not one has been exempt from the miseries of foreign invasion, scarcelyone has preserved its independence inviolate. ”

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