Robert Peel/leader of The Opposition 1835-1841

Famous quotes containing the words leader and/or opposition:

    “A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren’t still there, he’s no longer a political leader.”
    —Bernard Baruch (1870–1965)

    “Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)