Robert Peel/leader of The Opposition 1835-1841

Famous quotes containing the words robert, leader and/or opposition:

    Don’t use that word, Frank. We don’t like it. Say rather that we are undead, immortal.
    —Eric Taylor. Robert Siodmak. Katherine Caldwell (Louise Allbritton)

    I don’t think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
    Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)

    My opposition [to interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
    James Thurber (1894–1961)