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Talk:Work

Restoration of Alphabetizations
Rather than an "era" based organization, which was relatively recently applied, I believe that this article should be restored to an "alphabetical by author or source" organization, as most theme pages are, as many years ago it was clearly discerned that this is nearly always the easiest and least controversial arrangement for theme pages — I might attend to doing that within a week or two. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:49, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I completely agree. I think chronological organization is only appropriate in a very few cases where there has been a clear and uncontroversial evolution of thought such that people of different eras have starkly different perspectives on what they are even talking about, or where there is a clear demarcation between perspectives before and after a transformative event that effectively changes the subject. ~ Ningauble (talk) 15:36, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree the chronological organization hasn't worked out very well in the cases I tried it. I am returning this article to alphabetic organization. ~ Peter1c (talk) 17:48, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * There is no substitute for hard work.
 * Thomas Edison

 * Great ideas originate in the muscles.
 * Thomas Edison

 * If you behave as if the meaning of our life consisted in being able to work so many hours a day, you rake away from all sick people the right to live and the justification for their existence.
 * Viktor Frankl

 * Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.
 * Henry Ford

 * No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community.
 * Sigmund Freud

 * The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.
 * Robert Frost

 * The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
 * Robert Frost

 * Lose this day loitering, 'Twill be the same story Tomorrow — and the next more dilatory. Then indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting overdays! Are you ernest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or dream you can — begin it! Courage has genius, power and magic in it. Only engage, and the mind grows heated. Begin it, and the work will be completed.
 * Goethe

 * It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life — those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest people.
 * Brutus Hamilton

 * Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.
 * Napoleon Hill

 * Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
 * Vince Lombardi

 * The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
 * Vince Lombardi

 * Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.
 * Huey P. Long

 * When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
 * Don Marquis

 * I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.
 * Charles Horace Mayo

 * Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success.
 * David O. McKay

 * If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
 * Ogden Nash

 * Everything in this world depends on work.
 * Louis Pasteur

 * We work to better ourselves, and the rest of humanity.
 * Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, of Star Trek

 * You must always work not just within but below your means If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.
 * Pablo Picasso

 * The phrase "working mother" is redundant.
 * Jane Sellman

 * Sometimes you have to rent a room instead of work.
 * Master Shake of Aqua Teen Hunger Force

 * The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic — in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea — known to medical science is work.
 * Thomas Szasz

 * The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
 * Brian Tracy

 * If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.
 * Mark Twain

 * Work purifies your heart.
 * Swami Vivekananda

 * It's not true that the more sex that you have, the more it interferes with your work. I find that the more sex you have, the better work you do.
 * H. G. Wells

 * I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear — the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.
 * Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

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 * Sorted alphabetically by first line

 * Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
 * Anonymous proverb, often attributed to Confucius.
 * Variant: If you love what you do, you'll never have to work a day in your life.

 * Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.
 * Unknown

 * First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
 * Greek proverb

 * If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
 * Chinese proverb

 * The dumber you are the less they make you do.
 * Unknown

 * Work is for people who can't fish.
 * Unknown

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 * No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.
 * B. Dodge.

 * All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons.
 * Marsha Sinetar

 * My young men shall never work. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams.
 * Smoholla, Wanapum religious leader.

 * The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.
 * Margaret Carty

 * Vision is where tomorrow begins, for it expresses what you and others who share the vision will be working hard to create. Since most people don't take the time to think systematically about the future, those who do, and who base their strategies and actions on their visions, have inordinate power to shape the future.
 * Burt Nanus

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 * Theognis' words don't seem to fit here, so removed them:
 * Unless the gods deceive my mind, That man is forging fetters for himself.
 * Theognis of Megara, Elegies, Lines 539-540, as translated by Dorothea Wender.

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Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst (born 7 June 1965) is a British artist, the most prominent of the Young British Artists.

Quotes

 * I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say "f off". But after a while you can get away with things.
 * Spalding, Julian. "Why it's OK not to like modern art", The Times, 8 May 2003.
 * Hirst quoted by Julian Stallabrass in 1990.

 * I was with this guy who was a plasterer, and at lunchtime he was eating a stuffed heart . . . I was thinking, "I'm not like these guys. I'm an artist." And I saw a bee come over to some flowers and get all the pollen out. I was looking and thinking, "How does it do that?" And then the guy who was eating the stuffed heart said, "How does that bee do that?"
 * Beckett, Andy. "Arts: A Strange Case", The Independent, 12 November 1995
 * Talking about when he worked as a builder after college

 * I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.
 * Kuhn, Nicola, "You can puff all you like Damien, but the wind's gone out of Britart", The Guardian, 16 March 1999.

 * The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
 * On the Way to Work, p. 82, Faber and Faber, 2001.
 * Most of Hirst's "spot paintings" are executed by assistants.

 * I started taking cocaine and drink ... I turned into a babbling fucking wreck.
 * On the Way to Work, Faber and Faber, 2001.

 * Great art – or good art – is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different. There's boring conceptual art and there's boring traditional art. Great art is if you can't stop thinking about it, then it becomes a memory.
 * In: Elizabeth Day Damien Hirst: 'Art is childish and childlike', The Guardian, 26 September 2010

 * It’s not a coincidence that governments use art on coins and notes. They do this to help us believe in money. Without art, it’s hard for us to believe in anything.
 * Shaw, Anny, NFT breakthrough: Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin creates 99% energy efficient blockchain—and Damien Hirst is its first artist, The Art Newspaper, 30 March 2021

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Tracey Emin

Dame Tracey Emin DBE (born 3 July 1963) is a British artist, and one of the Young British Artists.

Quotes

 * I want to be with my friends. I'm drunk. I want to phone my mum. She's going to be embarrassed by this conversation. I don't care. I don't give a fuck about it.
 * Clare Longrigg, "Sixty Minutes, Noise: by art's bad girl", The Guardian, (1997-12-04)
 * Said by Emin, apparently drunk, during a live Channel 4 programme. The remark made national news and catapulted her to overnight fame.

 * Your paintings are stuck, you are stuck! Stuck! Stuck! Stuck!
 * Milner, Frank (ed), The Stuckists Punk Victorian, [National Museums Liverpool 2004], p. 134
 * Said to ex-boyfriend, Billy Childish, as quoted in the Stuckists manifesto (1999), giving Charles Thomson the idea for the name Stuckism.

 * When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.
 * "Artist Emin leaves us baffled" BBC, (2001-12-06)
 * Emin was given the Plain English Campaign's "Foot in Mouth" award for this remark, made in a newspaper interview.

 * There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a league of his own. It would be like making comparisons with Warhol.
 * The Independent on Sunday 2005-03-12. Accessed 2006-03-19.
 * On artist Damien Hirst.

 * When I think about sex it makes me realise how alone I feel.
 * "Emin reveals naked self portraits" BBC, (2005-05-27)

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Billy Childish

Billy Childish (born 1 December 1959) is a musician, artist and poet. He is a co-founder of the Stuckists art group, which he has since left.

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 * Artists who don't paint aren't artists.
 * Milner, Frank (ed): The Stuckists Punk Victorian [National Museums Liverpool, 2005], p. 134
 * From The Stuckist Manifesto, (1999) co-written with Charles Thomson

 * It has become an ongoing national joke.
 * From The Turner Prize manifesto (2000), co-written with Charles Thomson
 * On the Turner Prize. Mostly quoted as "an ongoing national joke" or just a "national joke."

 * Before 1999, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas offered to get me exhibitions, but joining the Stuckists put a kaibosh on all that — because I wasn't prepared to be controlled. I agreed to co-found the Stuckists to be allowed to say what I wanted, and I left the Stuckists because I didn't really want to be in them in the first place.
 * Milner, Frank (ed): The Stuckists Punk Victorian, p. 21. National Museums Liverpool, 2005.

 * I like being on the margins. You work better there.
 * Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02

 * I am angry with him but I have compassion for him. The reason I can have a relationship with him is that I don’t see him as my father but as an individual. I’m glad I didn’t murder him that day. I couldn’t have lived with myself if I had.
 * Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02
 * On his father and a fight they had when Childish was 20 years old.

 * I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.
 * Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02

 * When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do.
 * Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02
 * Childish's name is the most prominent in Tracey Emin's Everyone I have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, appliquéd names in a tent (destroyed in the Momart warehouse fire).

 * What, like Harpic?
 * Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02
 * Childish's response on hearing that Tracey Emin had said she wanted to be household name (Harpic is a well known lavatory cleaner).

 * Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don’t like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.
 * Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02
 * On a party in the mid-1990s.

About Billy Childish

 * Your paintings are stuck, you are stuck! Stuck! Stuck! Stuck!
 * Milner, Frank (ed), The Stuckists Punk Victorian,, p. 134. National Museums Liverpool, 2004 (the Stuckists manifesto 1999).
 * Said to him by Tracey Emin, giving Charles Thomson the idea for the name Stuckism.

 * a seething, dyslexic, better-looking British Bukowski
 * Miranda Sawyer, The Observer

 * Britain's greatest cultural asset
 * The Guardian

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Charles Thomson (artist)

Charles Thomson (born 6 February 1953) is an English artist, photographer, poet and writer. He is a co-founder of the Stuckists art group.

Quotes

 * Artists who don't paint aren't artists.
 * Milner, Frank (ed): The Stuckists Punk Victorian [National Museums Liverpool, 2005], p. 134
 * From The Stuckist Manifesto (1999) co-written with Billy Childish

 * It has become an ongoing national joke.
 * From The Turner Prize manifesto (2000), co-written with Billy Childish
 * On the Turner Prize. Mostly quoted as "an ongoing national joke" or a "national joke."

 * He disrupted things and that’s fine, but now things have been shaken up so much that it’s been shaken up into little bits and the little bits have been shaken up into even smaller bits. We are saying let’s put it all back together.
 * Richard Moss, "Stuckist's Punk Victorian gatecrashes Walker's Biennial" 24hourmuseum.org.uk, 2004-09-17. Accessed 2007-02-01.
 * On Marcel Duchamp.

 * The Turner should be renamed the B&Q diy prize.
 * Dalya Alberge, "One Man and His Boat Sail into a Storm over the Turner" The Times, 2005-12-06.
 * On the 2005 Turner Prize winner, Simon Starling, who turned a shed into a boat and back into a shed.

 * The result of walking round Tate Modern is not an experience of the marvel of creative profundity which gives meaning to life, but more akin to the detritus of a dryly analytical bureaucrat reverting to an infantile stage during an extended breakdown.
 * "Interview with Charles Thomson of the Stuckists" artistica.com, 2006-01-29.

 * Doodles done by a lobotomised computer.
 * Dalya Alberge, "Painter Wins Turner Prize" The Times, 2006-12-04
 * On the 2006 Turner Prize winner, Tomma Abts, an abstract painter.

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Charles Thomson

Charles Thomson (29 November 1729 – 16 August 1824) was an Irish-born Patriot leader in Philadelphia during the American Revolution, and the secretary of the Continental Congress (1774–1789) throughout its existence. With William Barton he designed the Great Seal of the United States.
 * For the modern artist "Charles Thomson", see: Charles Thomson (artist)

Quotes

 * Let the world admire the supposed wisdom and valor of our great men. Perhaps they may adopt the qualities that have been ascribed to them, and thus good may be done. I shall not undeceive future generations.
 * Remarks on his abandonment of a personal account of the early history of the United States and the American Revolution, as quoted by Benjamin Rush in his memoirs.

 * On a field, _____ Chevrons composed of seven pieces on one side & six on the other, joined together at the top in such wise that each of the six bears against or is supported by & supports two of the opposite side the pieces of the chevrons on each side alternate red & white. The shield borne on the breast of an American Eagle on the wing & rising proper. In the dexter talon of the Eagle an Olive branch & in the sinister a bundle of Arrows. Over the head of the Eagle a Constellation of Stars surrounded with bright rays and at a little distance clouds. In the bill of the Eagle a scroll with these words E pluribus unum.
 * Description of Thomson's preliminary design for the Great Seal of the United States, later modified by heraldist William Barton for the final accepted design.

Remarks and Explanation

 * Remarks and Explanation on the Great Seal of the United States, as presented to the United States Congress, and adopted on 20 June 1782.

 * The Escutcheon is composed of the chief & pale, the two most honorable ordinaries. The Pieces, paly, represent the several states all joined in one solid compact entire, supporting a Chief, which unites the whole & represents Congress. The Motto alludes to this union. The pales in the arms are kept closely united by the chief and the Chief depends upon that union & the strength resulting from it for its support, to denote the Confederacy of the United States of America & the preservation of their union through Congress.

 * The Escutcheon is composed of the chief & pale, the two most honorable ordinaries. The Pieces, paly, represent the several states all joined in one solid compact entire, supporting a Chief, which unites the whole & represents Congress. The Motto alludes to this union. The pales in the arms are kept closely united by the chief and the Chief depends upon that union & the strength resulting from it for its support, to denote the Confederacy of the United States of America & the preservation of their union through Congress. The colours of the pales are those used in the flag of the United States of America; White signifies purity and innocence, Red, hardiness & valor, and Blue, the colour of the Chief signifies vigilance, perseverance & justice. The Olive branch and arrows denote the power of peace & war which is exclusively vested in Congress. The Constellation denotes a new State taking its place and rank among other sovereign powers. The Escutcheon is born on the breast of an American Eagle without any other supporters to denote that the United States of America ought to rely on their own Virtue.

 * The pyramid signifies Strength and Duration: The Eye over it & the Motto allude to the many signal interpositions of providence in favour of the American cause. The date underneath is that of the Declaration of Independence and the words under it signify the beginning of the new American Æra, which commences from that date.

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Silver City

Silver City is a 2004 political satire and drama film about an inept gubernatorial candidate (Chris Cooper) who accidentally hooks a dead body while fishing during the filming of a campaign commercial. A private detective (Danny Huston) is then hired to make a case tying the body to the candidate's political rivals.

 * Written and directed by John Sayles.

Vote early. Vote often taglines

Dialogue

 * Dickie Pilager: [Conducting an "improptu" press conference on his front porch.] I repeat I'm not raising taxes. We can't just keep throwing the taxpayers' hard-earned money at these perceived ... and some of them I admit are real ... so-called social problems. We have to get our priorities straight. Education is a priority. Affordable housing for our working people is a priority. Health care is a priority. Our economy is a priority. The environmental ... the whole environmental ... arena ... that's a big priority. Building new roads and maintaining the present ... keeping the infrastructure in place, where it belongs, that's a priority.
 * Nora Allardyce: What isn't a priority?
 * Dickie Pilager: What's not a priority ... is those matters which are of less of a ... not that they're not important but ... if you're going to have a front burner, which is where you want your priorities, it's like ... cooking ... there needs to be something sitting on the back one. And that's where your other organizations, your church people and your ... organizations formed to help these things, will be happy to pitch in if only government would get out of their way.

 * Dickie Pilager: [Conducting a press conference.] In the case of capital offenses I am absolutely in favor of the death penalty. You hear stories about frontier justice ... you can bet that the wrongdoers, the folks who couldn't play by the rules, had some respect for that. And there was no ... it didn't cost the taxpayer ... if they had had taxpayers back then ... those were the good old days, I suppose ... and all you needed was a good strong rope and a tree to hang it from!
 * Reporter 1: So you'll be proposing tougher criminal legis ...
 * Dickie Pilager: My message to criminals is this: straighten up or get out. There's no place for you in our state. You do the crime, and by God, you're gonna have to face your lumps.
 * Nora Allardyce: But the majority of those serving time for drug possession are ...
 * Dickie Pilager: You want to change the behavior? Stiffen the consequences!
 * Nora Allardyce: There have been reports, Mr. Pilager, that before you became involved in politics you had considerable experience with ...
 * Dickie Pilager: Look, if you're up in a helicopter, airplane, something that flies, you don't want your pilot intoxicated with drugs, do you? And it's that way with our schoolchildren ... Junior can't read if he's high on crack. Yeah, air is thin enough up here!
 * Dickie Pilager: [points to another reporter] Yes?

Other

 * Maddy Pilager: You know, the Amazon women amputated one of their breasts. [Draws back imaginary bow and arrow] Got in the way of the bowstring.

Taglines

 * Vote early. Vote often.
 * Vote Pilager '04.
 * Campaigning in theatres.

Cast

 * Chris Cooper — Dickey Pilager
 * Danny Huston — Danny O'Brien
 * Richard Dreyfuss — Chuck Raven
 * Maria Bello — Nora Allardyce
 * Daryl Hannah — Maddy Pilager

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Robert Peel

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850) was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835 and 1841–1846) simultaneously serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834-1835) and twice as Home Secretary (1822–1827 and 1828–1830). He is regarded as the father of modern English policing, owing to his founding of the Metropolitan Police Service. Peel was one of the founders of the modern Conservative Party.

Backbench MP

 * [T]he aggression, usurpation, and tyranny of Buonaparté was the only subject upon which all parties united. But to resist him in his encroachments effectually, unanimity was absolutely necessary, and the nature of the contest in which we were engaged, required that every heart and hand should be joined to give strength to the common cause. He hoped, we should still be able, as we had hitherto been, to ride in safety through the storm that had destroyed the rest of Europe, and that we should still stretch forth a hand to succour those who were yet struggling for life against the angry waves.
 * Maiden speech in the House of Commons (23 January 1810) in support of the war against France

Chief Secretary for Ireland

 * Let us recollect, that, under the constitution which we have derived from our ancestors, we have enjoyed more liberty, we have acquired more glory, we possess more character and power, than has hitherto fallen to the lot of any other country on the globe; and if there be any man yet undecided on this question, I entreat him that he will give the benefit of his doubt to the existing order of things,—and, that, before he gives his vote to a measure, of the consequences of which he is at least uncertain, he will weigh the substantial blessings which he knows to have been derived from the government that is, against all the speculative advantages which he is promised from the government that is to be.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (9 May 1817) rejecting Catholic Emancipation

Backbench MP

 * Do not you think that the tone of England—of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion—is more liberal—to use an odious but intelligible phrase—than the policy of the Government? Do not you think that there is a feeling, becoming daily more general and more confirmed—that is, independent of the pressure of taxation, or any immediate cause—in favour of some undefined change in the mode of governing the country?
 * Letter to John Wilson Croker (23 March 1820), quoted in L. J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of the late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker...1809 to 1830, Vol. I (1884), p. 170

Home Secretary

 * They propose no encroachments upon civil liberty, no extension of executive authority, no rash subversion of ancient institutions, no relinquishment of what is practically good, for the chance of speculative and uncertain improvement. "The work which I propound," as lord Bacon says, "tendeth to pruning and grafting the law, and not to plowing up and planting it again; for such a remove I should held indeed for a perilous innovation."
 * Speech in the House of Commons (26 March 1826) on the consolidation of the criminal law

 * I have endeavoured to steer a middle course between the general verbosity of our English statutes, and the extreme brevity of the French criminal code. ... In the bills I have the honour of submitting to the House, a middle course has been steered between the redundancy of our own legal enactments, and the conciseness of the French code.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (13 March 1827) on the consolidation of the criminal law

 * I have for years attempted to maintain the exclusion of Roman Catholics from Parliament, and the high offices of the State. I do not think it was an unnatural or unreasonable struggle. I resign it in consequence of the conviction that it can no longer be advantageously maintained. I yield therefore to a moral necessity which I cannot control; unwilling to push resistance to a point which might endanger the establishments that I wish to defend.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (5 March 1829) introducing the Bill for Catholic Emancipation, quoted in The Parliamentary Debates, New Series: Vol. XX (1829), column 730

 * The police are the public and the public are the police.
 * Of Peel's nine principles

Leader of the Opposition

 * I want no array of figures, I want no official documents, I want no speeches of six hours, to establish to my satisfaction the public policy of maintaining the Legislative Union [with Ireland]. I feel and know that the Repeal of it must lead to the dismemberment of this great empire; must make Great Britain a fourth-rate power of Europe, and Ireland a savage wilderness; and I will give therefore, at once, and without hesitation, an emphatic negative to the motion for Repeal.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (25 April 1834)

 * We...were resolved, if invited, not to decline the responsibility, and to exhaust every constitutional means of ascertaining whether the country, or rather whether the constituent body, would support an administration formed upon Conservative principles. Those principles I, for one, consider to be perfectly compatible with cautious and well-digested reforms in every institution which really requires reform, and with the redress of proved grievances.
 * Memorandum (23 July 1834), quoted in Lord Mahon and Edward Cardwell (eds.), Memoirs by The Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., &c. Part II.—The New Government; 1834–5. Part III.—Repeal of the Corn Laws; 1845–6 (1857), p. 13

Prime Minister

 * I gladly avail myself also of this, a legitimate opportunity, of making a more public appeal—of addressing myself, through you, to that great and intelligent class of society of which you are a portion, and a fair and unexceptionable representative—to that class which is much less interested in the contentions of party, than in the maintenance of order and the cause of good government
 * The Tamworth Manifesto (18 December 1834)

 * With respect to the Reform Bill itself, I will repeat now the declaration I made when I entered the House of Commons as a member of the Reformed Parliament—that I consider the Reform Bill a final and irrevocable settlement of a great constitutional question—a settlement which no friend to the peace and welfare of this country would attempt to disturb, either by direct or by insidious means.
 * The Tamworth Manifesto (18 December 1834)

 * Then, as to the spirit of the Reform Bill, and the willingness to adopt and enforce it as a rule of government: if, by adopting the spirit of the Reform Bill, it be meant that we are to live in a perpetual vortex of agitation; that public men can only support themselves in public estimation by adopting every popular impression of the day,—by promising the instant redress of anything which anybody may call an abuse—by abandoning altogether that great aid of government—more powerful than either law or reason—the respect for ancient rights, and the deference to prescriptive authority; if this be the spirit of the Reform Bill, I will not undertake to adopt it. But if the spirit of the Reform Bill implies merely a careful review of institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper combining, with the firm maintenance of established rights, the correction of proved abuses and the redress of real grievances,—in that case, I can for myself and colleagues undertake to act in such a spirit and with such intentions.
 * The Tamworth Manifesto (18 December 1834)

 * Our object will be—the maintenance of peace—the scrupulous and honourable fulfilment, without reference to their original policy, of all existing engagements with Foreign Powers—the support of public credit—the enforcement of strict economy—the just and impartial consideration of what is due to all interests—agricultural, manufacturing, and commercial.
 * The Tamworth Manifesto (18 December 1834)

Leader of the Opposition

 * [A]ll my own interests are identified with agricultural prosperity. It is true that I am under the deepest obligation to commerce and manufactures; and I am proud to acknowledge them; but all my present pecuniary and personal interests are centred in the prosperity of agriculture.
 * Speech from the election hustings at Tamworth (24 July 1837), quoted in Norman Gash, Sir Robert Peel: The Life of Sir Robert Peel after 1830 (1972), p. 166

 * I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes, the various elements in short, which constitute or affect the price of agricultural produce.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (15 March 1839)

Prime Minister

 * Instead of looking to taxation on consumption,—instead of reviving the taxes on salt or on sugar,—it is my duty to make an earnest appeal to the possessors of property, for the purpose of repairing this mighty evil. I propose, for a time at least, (and I never had occasion to make a proposition with a more thorough conviction of its being one which the public interest of the country required)—I propose, that for a time to be limited, the income of this country should be called on to contribute a certain sum for the purpose of remedying this mighty and growing evil.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (11 March 1842)

 * My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer—how, without inflicting any injury on Canada, I can secure the most substantial benefit to this country, to the manufacturing, to the commercial, and to the agricultural interests. ... The real way in which we can benefit the working and manufacturing classes is, unquestionably, by removing the burden that presses on the springs of manufactures and commerce.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (11 March 1842)

 * I believe that on the general principle of free-trade there is now no great difference of opinion, and that all agree in the general rule that we should purchase in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (10 May 1842)

 * If you had to constitute new societies, you might on moral and social grounds prefer cornfields to cotton factories, an agricultural to a manufacturing population. But our lot is cast, and we cannot recede.
 * Letter to John Wilson Croker (27 July 1842), quoted in Charles Stuart Parker (ed.), Sir Robert Peel from His Private Papers, Volume II (1899), p. 529

 * We must make this country a cheap country for living, and thus induce parties to remain and settle here—enable them to consume more, by having more to spend.
 * Letter to John Wilson Croker (27 July 1842), quoted in Charles Stuart Parker (ed.), Sir Robert Peel from His Private Papers, Volume II (1899), p. 530

 * It is a question of time. The next change in the Corn Laws must be to an open trade; and if our population increase for two or three years at the rate of 300,000 per annum, you may throw open the ports, and British agriculture will not suffer. But the next change must be the last.
 * Letter to Sir James Graham (30 December 1842), quoted in Charles Stuart Parker (ed.), Sir Robert Peel from His Private Papers, Volume II (1899), p. 551

 * Sir, the hon. Gentleman has stated here very emphatically, what he has more than once stated at the conferences of the Anti-Corn-law League, that he holds me individually—[Great excitement]—individually responsible for the distress and suffering of the country; that he holds me personally responsible; but be the consequences of those insinuations what they may, never will I be influenced by menaces either in this House or out of this House, to adopt a course which I consider—[The rest of the sentence was lost in shouts from various parts of the House.]
 * Speech in the House of Commons (17 February 1843)

 * If you can keep Peace, reduce expense, extend Commerce, and strengthen our hold on India by Confidence in our justice and kindness and wisdom, you will be received on your Return with acclamations a thousand times louder and a welcome infinitely more cordial than if you have a dozen victories to boast of, and annexe the Punjaub to the overgrown Empire of India.
 * Letter to Henry Hardinge, the Governor-General of India (6 November 1844), quoted in Donald Read, Peel and the Victorians (1987), p. 154

 * We are bound also to consider what are those taxes, the removal of which will give more scope to commercial enterprise, and occasion an increased demand for labour. ... let the House remember that the principle on which we have gone, and gone advisedly, is the absolute repeal of taxation in many cases. ... We do hope that the direct and instant effect will be increased consumption of many articles now subject to duty, invigorating the industry and extending the commercial enterprise of the country through other channels, and supplying the void we cannot hope to fill up by direct taxation. ... We have taken this course after careful consideration, and we recommend this plan from a deliberate conviction that if sanctioned by Parliament it will conduce to the extension of industry, to the encouragement of enterprise, and that the result of that extension of industry and encouragement of enterprise will be the benefit of all classes of the community, whether they are directly or indirectly connected with commerce, manufactures, or agriculture.
 * Budget speech in the House of Commons (14 February 1845)

 * [T]he Conservative party...cannot deny that Trade is prosperous, That the people are contented, That the Labourer has a greater Command than he ever had over the Necessaries and Comforts of Life. That Chartism is extinguished, or at least fast asleep. That the Church is stronger than ever it was except for its own internal stupid differences & Controversies. That any wish for organic Change in the Constitution, for addition to popular privileges, is dormant. That the Revenue is so prosperous that our calculations of deficiency are certainly baffled. That our monetary system is sounder than it has ever been, and yet that there has been boundless activity in commerce and in all speculations of gain. That even Land is increasing in value in consequence of the prosperity of Commerce. But we have Reduced protection of agriculture, and tried to lay the foundation of Peace in Ireland, and these are offences for which nothing can atone.
 * Letter to Henry Hardinge (27 May 1845), quoted in Donald Read, Peel and the Victorians (1987), pp. 148-149

 * I hope...that this country will never depart from that policy which has secured its safety, namely, that of being strong as a naval Power, and at the same time not attempting to enter into competition with the great military Powers of Europe.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (30 July 1845)

 * The accounts from Ireland of the potato crop, confirmed as they are by your high authority, are very alarming. We must consider whether it is possible by legislation, or by the exercise of prerogative, to apply a remedy to the great evil with which we are threatened. The application of such remedy involves considerations of the utmost magnitude. The remedy is the removal of all impediments to the import of all kinds of human food—that is, the total and absolute repeal for ever of all duties on all articles of subsistence.
 * Letter to Lord Heytesbury (15 October 1845), quoted in Lord Mahon and Edward Cardwell (eds.), Memoirs by The Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., &c. Part II.—The New Government; 1834–5. Part III.—Repeal of the Corn Laws; 1845–6 (1857), p. 121

 * I think there is a gentlemanlike policy which nations as well as individuals would do well to adopt.
 * Letter (23 October 1845), quoted in Norman Gash, Sir Robert Peel: The Life of Sir Robert Peel after 1830 (1972), p. 516

 * If we can place confidence in the Reports which we have received, there is the prospect of a lamentable deficiency of the ordinary food of the people in many parts of Ireland, and in some parts of this country, and of Scotland. ... Can we vote public money for the sustenance of any considerable portion of the people on account of actual or apprehended scarcity, and maintain in full operation the existing restrictions on the free import of grain? I am bound to say my impression is that we cannot.
 * Memorandum read to the Cabinet (1 November 1845), quoted in Lord Mahon and Edward Cardwell (eds.), Memoirs by The Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., &c. Part II.—The New Government; 1834–5. Part III.—Repeal of the Corn Laws; 1845–6 (1857), pp. 141, 145

 * Whatever country squires may think, it is not safe to guarantee the continuance of the present Corn Laws.
 * Letter to Sir Thomas Fremantle (19 December 1845), quoted in Charles Stuart Parker (ed.), Sir Robert Peel from His Private Papers, Volume III (1899), p. 255

 * The agricultural labourers have been better off this winter and last winter than they were before, and rely upon it that when the working-classes feel convinced that their wages do not rise with the price of food, the worst grounds on which we can fight the battle of true Conservatism is food.
 * Letter to Charles Arbuthnot (7 January 1846), quoted in Norman Gash, Sir Robert Peel: The Life of Sir Robert Peel after 1830 (1972), pp. 566–567

 * I cannot...think it inconsistent with true Conservative policy, that we should...be engaged in trying to efface the recollections of the exploits of both countries in war, or extracting from those recollections everything which savours of bitterness; that we should be trying to engage in a rivalry, not in exploits on the field of blood, but in an honourable competition for the advancement of commerce and civilization, and the improvement of the social condition of the people. It is not inconsistent with true Conservative policy, that we should increase the trade of the country by removing restrictions; nor is it inconsistent with sound Conservative policy, that we should reduce the taxation of the country whilst we increased its revenue. It is not, in my mind, inconsistent with true Conservative policy, that we have extinguished agitation and discouraged sedition, not by stringent coercive laws, but by encouraging the idea amongst the great body of the people, that we, the rich and powerful, are willing to take a more than ordinary share of the public burdens, and to remove those burdens from the people so far as it is possible. Sir, believe me, to conduct the Government of this country is a most arduous duty; I may say it without irreverence, that these ancient institutions, like our physical frames, are “fearfully and wonderfully made.”
 * Speech in the House of Commons (22 January 1846)

 * It is no easy task to ensure the united action of an ancient monarchy, a proud aristocracy, and a reformed constituency. I have done everything I could do, and have thought it consistent with true Conservative policy, to reconcile these three branches of the State. I have thought it consistent with true Conservative policy to promote so much of happiness and contentment among the people that the voice of disaffection should be no longer heard, and that thoughts of the dissolution of our institutions should be forgotten in the midst of physical enjoyment. These were my attempts, and I thought them not inconsistent with true and enlarged Conservative policy.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (22 January 1846)

 * Do you not admit to me that in the social condition of the millions in the manufacturing districts, who earn their subsistence by the sweat of their brow, the price of wheat is of the first importance, and has become an object of the deepest interest? Have you read the Reports on the Health of Towns? Are you not deeply convinced that some effort ought to be made to improve the social condition of the masses of the population, who earn their subsistence in the manufacturing towns? It seems to me that the first foundation of any such improvement is, that there should be abundance of food. You may talk of improving the habits of the working classes, introducing education amongst them, purifying their dwellings, improving their cottages; but believe me the first step towards improvement of their social condition is an abundance of food. That lies at the bottom of all. It is in vain, if the people are suffering under scarcity, or if any apprehension of scarcity prevails; the suffering, or the apprehension of it, so depresses the spirits, that it is vain for you to inculcate lessons of cleanliness, or to improve dwellings, until the people are provided with abundance of food.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (27 March 1846)

 * Sir, if I look to the prerogative of the Crown—if I look to the position of the Church—if I look to the influence of the aristocracy—I cannot charge myself with having taken any course inconsistent with Conservative principles, calculated to endanger the privileges of any branch of the Legislature, or of any institutions of the country. My earnest wish has been, during my tenure of power, to impress the people of this country with a belief that the Legislature was animated by a sincere desire to frame its legislation upon the principles of equity and justice. I have a strong belief that the greatest object which we or any other Government can contemplate should be to elevate the social condition of that class of the people with whom we are brought into no direct relationship by the exercise of the elective franchise.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (15 May 1846)

 * I can say with truth that Her Majesty's Government, in proposing those measures of commercial policy which have disentitled them to the confidence of many who heretofore gave them their support, were influenced by no other motive than the desire to consult the interests of this country. Our object was to avert dangers which we thought were imminent, and to terminate a conflict which, according to our belief, would soon place in hostile collision great and powerful classes in this country. The maintenance of power was not a motive for the proposal of these measures; for, as I said before, I had not a doubt, that whether these measures were accompanied by failure or success, the certain issue must be the termination of the existence of this Government.
 * Resignation speech in the House of Commons (29 June 1846) after the repeal of the Corn Laws

 * ...in proposing our measures of commercial policy, I had no wish to rob others of the credit justly due to them. ... The name which ought to be, and will be, associated with the success of those measures, is the name of one who, acting, I believe, from pure and disinterested motives, has, with untiring energy, made appeals to our reason, and has enforced those appeals with an eloquence the more to be admired because it was unaffected and unadorned: the name which ought to be chiefly associated with the success of those measures, is the name of Richard Cobden.
 * Resignation speech in the House of Commons (29 June 1846) after the repeal of the Corn Laws

 * In relinquishing power...I shall leave a name execrated by every monopolist who, from less honourable motives, clamours for protection because it conduces to his own individual benefit; but it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of good will in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labour, and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
 * Resignation speech in the House of Commons (29 June 1846) after the repeal of the Corn Laws

Post-Prime Ministerial

 * ...if wheat were at this moment subject to a duty of twenty shillings the quarter, and if Indian corn were virtually excluded, next winter would not pass without a convulsion endangering the whole frame of society, without the humiliation of constituted authorities forced to yield after a disgraceful struggle...if their [the Protectionists'] advice had been taken, we should have had famine prices for many articles, and a state of exasperated public feeling and just agitation, which it would require wiser heads than theirs to allay. So far from regretting the expulsion from office, I rejoice in it as the greatest relief from an intolerable burden. To have your own way, and to be for five years the Minister of this country in the House of Commons, is quite enough for any man's strength. He is entitled to his discharge, from length of service. But to have to incur the deepest responsibility, to bear the heaviest toil, to reconcile colleagues with conflicting opinions to a common course of action, to keep together in harmony the Sovereign, the Lords and the Commons; to have to do these things, and to be at the same time the tool of a party—that is to say, to adopt the opinions of men who have not access to your knowledge, and could not profit by it if they had, who spend their time in eating and drinking, and hunting, shooting, gambling, horse-racing, and so forth—would be an odious servitude, to which I will never submit. I determine to keep aloof from party combinations.
 * Letter to Lord Hardinge (24 September 1846), quoted in Charles Stuart Parker (ed.), Sir Robert Peel from His Private Papers, Volume III (1899), pp. 473-474

 * [Famine-stricken districts in Ireland] would require some better consolation than the doctrine of Adam Smith on the true Principles of demand and supply and the danger of Government interference.
 * Letter to Henry Goulburn on the Great Famine (21 November 1846), quoted in Donald Read, Peel and the Victorians (1987), p. 105

 * It was impossible to reconcile the repeal of the Corn Laws by me with the keeping together of the Conservative party, and I had no hesitation in sacrificing the subordinate object, and with it my own political interests.
 * Letter to Lord Aberdeen (19 August 1847), quoted in Lord Mahon and Edward Cardwell (eds.), Memoirs by The Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., &c. Part II.—The New Government; 1834–5. Part III.—Repeal of the Corn Laws; 1845–6 (1857), p. 322

 * I believe as firmly as any of those who dissent from me with respect to the mode in which the object is to be attained, that it is a vital question for the country—that unless our domestic industry be encouraged, we cannot expect peace, contentment, or prosperity. ... It is a question which affects the happiness of the people, which affects their social progress, their progress in morals, in the enjoyment of life, in refinement of taste and civilisation of manners—it concerns these things at least as much as it concerns the accumulation of wealth.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (6 July 1849), quoted in Hansard's Parliamentary Debates: Third Series, Commencing with the Accession of William IV. Vol. CVI. (1849), column 1448

 * I boldly maintain that the principle of protection to domestic industry, meaning thereby legislative encouragement for purpose of protection—duties on import imposed for that purpose, and not for revenue, is a vicious principle. I contest the hon. Gentleman's assumption, that you cannot fight hostile tariffs by free imports. I so totally dissent from that assumption, that I maintain that the best way to compete with hostile tariffs is to encourage free imports. So far from thinking the principle of protection a salutary principle, I maintain that the more widely you extend it, the greater the injury you will inflict on the national wealth, and the more you will cripple the national industry.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (6 July 1849), quoted in Hansard's Parliamentary Debates: Third Series, Commencing with the Accession of William IV. Vol. CVI. (1849), columns 1449–1450

 * The principles which should govern the commercial intercourse of nations, do not differ from those which regulate the dealings of private individuals.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (6 July 1849), quoted in Hansard's Parliamentary Debates: Third Series, Commencing with the Accession of William IV. Vol. CVI. (1849), column 1450

 * Each town and each country will command the amount of currency which it requires for its own purposes, undisturbed in the slightest degree by consulting its manifest interest, namely, by purchasing that which it wants in the cheapest market. [Derisive cheers.] Yes, by purchasing that which it wants in the cheapest market. You consider this a very low and unworthy principle; that it is a doctrine of the Manchester school; that it is a novel doctrine of some speculative political philosophers, and that it may be safely rejected. But this doctrine of purchasing in the cheapest market is not a doctrine of speculative philosophers only. It is not a doctrine introduced by modern economists. It is, no doubt, a doctrine sanctioned expressly and directly by the authority of Adam Smith. It is the doctrine of Say and of Hume. It is opposed to a doctrine which was fashioned some eighty or ninety years since, of which such writers as Montesquieu and Voltaire were the patrons; but Smith, and Say, and Hume, demonstrated the true principles which ought to regulate the commercial policy of a nation.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (6 July 1849), quoted in Hansard's Parliamentary Debates: Third Series, Commencing with the Accession of William IV. Vol. CVI. (1849), column 1452

 * My belief is, that a wiser decision than that to which you came—to subject property to direct taxation within certain limits—to remove the prohibition upon foreign cattle—to permit swine and sheep to be imported—to reduce the duty on corn, on sugar, on lard, on butter, and on cheese—you never made. My belief is that you have been amply repaid for any loss you may have sustained by that reduction; that you have gained the confidence and goodwill of the labouring classes in this country, by parting with that which was thought to be directly for the benefit of the landed interest. It was that confidence in the generosity and justice of Parliament which in no small degree enabled you to pass triumphantly through that storm which convulsed other nations during the year 1848.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (6 July 1849), quoted in Hansard's Parliamentary Debates: Third Series, Commencing with the Accession of William IV. Vol. CVI. (1849), column 1460

 * What is this diplomacy? It is a costly engine for maintaining peace. It is a remarkable instrument used by civilised nations for the purpose of preventing war. Unless it be used for that purpose, unless it be used to appease the angry passions of individual men, and check the feelings which arise out of national resentment, unless it be used for that purpose, it is an instrument not only costly but mischievous. If then your application of diplomacy be to fester every wound, to provoke instead of soothing resentments, to place a minister in every court of Europe for the purpose, not of preventing quarrels, or of adjusting quarrels, but for the purpose of continuing an angry correspondence in this place, or of promoting what is supposed to be an English interest by keeping up conflicts with the representatives of other powers, then I say that not only is the expenditure upon this costly instrument thrown away, but this great engine, used by civilised society for the purpose of maintaining peace, is perverted into a cause of hostility and war.
 * Speech in the House of Commons on the Don Pacifico affair (28 June 1850), quoted in James Richard Thursfield, Peel (1891), pp. 244–245

Quotes about Peel

 * [T]here is always so much wisdom and prudence in the view he takes of great and difficult affairs, that his opinion cannot but be valuable.
 * Lord Aberdeen to Princess Lieven (22 January 1850), quoted in The Correspondence of Lord Aberdeen and Princess Lieven, 1832–1854, ed. E. Jones Parry (1938), p. 364

 * Peel himself is a much better man than any we can oppose to him. He really is exceedingly dexterous and handy, as well as eloquent and powerful.
 * John Campbell to his brother (17 March 1835), quoted in Lord Campbell, Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From the Earliest Times till the Reign of Queen Victoria, Volume 12 (1881), p. 130

 * I decidedly liked Peel; and could not but hope some real good might yet lie in him for the country... Incomparably better furnished both with talent and disposition than any other we have at present.
 * Thomas Carlyle to his mother (22 March 1848), quoted in Fred Kaplan, Thomas Carlyle: A Biography (1983), p. 330

 * The statesman who more than any other had the instinct of the necessity of the moment
 * Cavour, quoted in Evelyn Martinengo Cesaresco, Cavour (1904), p. 31

 * Peel was the most admirable and high-principled of contemporary politicians.
 * Cavour's opinion of Peel in the 1840s, as described by Denis Mack Smith, Cavour (1985), p. 25

 * Now, the whole interest centres in yourself. You represent the IDEA of the age, and it has no other representative amongst statesmen.
 * Richard Cobden to Peel (23 June 1846), quoted in John Morley, The Life of Richard Cobden [1879] (1903), p. 392

 * Practical reforms are the order of the day, and you are by common consent the practical reformer. The Condition of England Question—there is your mission!
 * Richard Cobden to Peel (23 June 1846), quoted in John Morley, The Life of Richard Cobden [1879] (1903), p. 396

 * I myself am satisfied that he is much nearer to the Radicals than to any other party in the State.
 * John Wilson Croker to the Duke of Wellington (29 June 1847), quoted in L. J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 to 1830, Vol. III (1884), p. 112

 * His smile was like the silver plate on a coffin.
 * John Philpot Curran

 * The Right Honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing and walked away with their clothes.
 * Benjamin Disraeli, speech in the House of Commons (28 February 1845)

 * Sir Robert had studied the change which has been progressively taking place in the public mind and, from very close observation, I am thoroughly convinced that one of his greatest objects was, if possible, to encourage a kind and sympathetic feeling between the different classes and ranks in society, so that each might have adapted itself to a change which is inevitable. This belief is so firmly fixed in my mind, that I have always regarded it as the key by which much of his conduct that has exposed him to obloquy, was to be explained.
 * Lord Dunfermline to Baron Stockmar (c. 1846), quoted in Norman Gash, Sir Robert Peel: The Life of Sir Robert Peel after 1830 (1972), p. 713, n.

 * Peel was decidedly for a property tax. He wished to reach such men as Baring, his father, Rothschild, and others, as well as absentees and Ireland. He thought too it was expedient to reconcile the lower with the higher classes, and to diminish the burthen of taxation on the poor man.
 * Lord Ellenborough, diary entry (14 March 1830), quoted in Lord Ellenborough, A Political Diary, 1828-1830, Vol. II, ed. Lord Colchester (1881), p. 213

 * There were two things especially conspicuous about him. One was his over-mastering sense of public duty; this never deserted him. The other thing was his sense of measure. He had generally an exact sense of the proportion between one Bill, and the general policy of the Government; also of the proportion between the different parts of the same Bill; and of the relation in which the leaders of his party stood to their followers.
 * William Ewart Gladstone, remarks to Lionel Tollemache (29 January 1894), quoted in Lionel Tollemache, Talks with Mr. Gladstone (1898), p. 116

 * The great virtue of Peel was that he had such an enormous conscience. Conscience, they say, is a very expensive thing to keep. Peel certainly kept one.
 * William Ewart Gladstone, remarks to Lionel Tollemache (13 January 1896), quoted in Lionel Tollemache, Talks with Mr. Gladstone (1898), pp. 126–127

 * Taken all round, Peel was the greatest man I ever knew.
 * William Ewart Gladstone, quoted in Edward Walter Hamilton, Mr. Gladstone: A Monograph (1898), pp. 160-161

 * I believe it to be impossible that anything can prevent Peel's speedy return to office; he has raised his reputation to such a height during this session, he has established such a conviction of his great capacity and of his liberal, enlarged, and at the same time safe views and opinions, that even the Radicals, such as Hume, join in the general chorus of admiration which is raised to his merits; he stands so proudly eminent, and there is such a general lack of talent, that he must be recalled by the voice of the nation and by the universal admission that he is indispensable to the country.
 * Charles Greville, journal entry (3 April 1835), quoted in The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV, King William IV and Queen Victoria, Volume III, ed. Henry Reeve (1888), p. 247

 * Peel brought forward his financial plans in a speech of three hours and forty minutes, acknowledged by everybody to have been a masterpiece of financial statement. The success was complete; he took the House by storm; and his opponents, though of course differing and objecting on particular points, did him ample justice... It is really remarkable to see the attitude Peel has taken in this Parliament, his complete mastery over both his friends and his foes. His own party, nolentes aut volentes, have surrendered at discretion, and he has got them as well disciplined and as obedient as the crew of a man-of-war. This just measure, so lofty in conception, right in direction, and able in execution, places him at once on a pinnacle of power, and establishes his Government on such a foundation as accident alone can shake. Political predictions are always rash, but certainly there is every probability of Peel's being Minister for as many years as his health and vigour may endure. Only a few weeks ago I heard from my Whig friends of nothing but his weakness and embarrassments, and of all the difficulties his own supporters would cause him, what a poor figure he cut, &c.; but now they have not a word to say, and one of them who had been loudest in that strain brought to the Travellers’, where I was dining, an account of Peel's speech, and said, ‘One felt, all the time he was speaking, “Thank God, Peel is Minister!”’ There can be no doubt that he is now a very great man, and it depends on himself to establish a lasting reputation.
 * Charles Greville, journal entry (13 March 1842), quoted in The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852, Volume II (1885), pp. 87–88

 * I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. "Orders of merit," said he, "were the proper rewards of the military" (the desolators of the world in all ages). "Men of science are better left to the applause of their own hearts." Most learned legislator! Most liberal cotton-spinner! Was your title the proper reward of military prowess? Pity, you hold not the dungeon-keys of an English Inquisition! Perhaps Science, like Creeds, would flourish best under a little persecution.
 * John Joseph Griffin, in Chemical Recreations (7th Edition, 1834) "The Romance of Chemistry" p. 232

 * What struck me above all in the conversation of Sir Robert Peel was his constant and passionate preoccupation with the state of the working classes in England.
 * François Guizot, Sir Robert Peel (1856), p. 78, quoted in Norman Gash, Sir Robert Peel: The Life of Sir Robert Peel after 1830 (1972), p. 685

 * The Protection Parliament has voted and passed, by a great majority, the total repeal of the Corn-laws! No living soul could have done this but Peel, and I am not surprised at the increasing rage of the Protectionists. They appear more angry than ever.
 * John Hobhouse (15 May 1846), quoted in Lord Broughton, Recollections of a Long Life, with Additional Extracts from His Private Diaries, Vol. VI. 1841—1852, ed. Lady Dorchester (1911), p. 172

 * Sir Robert Peel, perhaps the greatest peacetime prime minister in British history... Probably no one man has ever possessed such a comprehensive and detailed grasp of the whole machinery of government... As he saw it, the problem facing the ruling class, during a period when Britain was undergoing a revolution in population and in rising expectations, was how to preserve a fundamentally sound system from violent overthrow by making it more acceptable and efficient. In his view acceptability and efficiency were inseparable. To work, Conservatism thus demanded well-judged and carefully timed but none the less fundamental reforms. The entire operations of government had to be improved and so popularized by applying sensible commercial principles. That is the pragmatic and, if you like, materialistic approach which Mrs Thatcher so clearly shares.
 * Paul Johnson, ‘Thatcher's glorious forebear’, The Times (6 February 1988), p. 8

 * His very name seems a synonym for all that is safe, judicious, business-like, sound, and practical. In spite of the two great schisms of 1829 and 1846, we cannot help looking back upon him as a man whom any party would have been wise to follow. We cannot help it. Nor can I doubt that if he had been spared, his old followers would again have fallen under the spell, and again have mustered under his banner.
 * T. E. Kebbel, A History of Toryism: From the Accession of Mr. Pitt to Power in 1783 to the Death of Lord Beaconsfield in 1881 (1886), p. 299

 * For concocting, producing, explaining, and defending measures he had no equal, or anything like an equal. There was nothing simile aut secundum. When a thing was to be done, he did it better than anybody.
 * George Cornewall Lewis to Sir Anthony Head (11 July 1850), quoted in Letters of the Right Hon. Sir G. C. Lewis to Various Friends, ed. Gilbert Frankland Lewis (1870), p. 226

 * The Whig opposition in the house appears spiritless and several of the Radicals, Roebuck, Raikes, Curry etc., laud Peel to the skies and contrast his vigour and liberality with the feebleness and irresolution of the late Ministry.
 * William Lucas, journal entry (c. 14 April 1842), quoted in A Quaker Journal: Being the Diary and Reminiscences of William Lucas of Hitchin (1804–1861) a Member of the Society of Friends, Volume I, ed. G. P. Baker (1934), p. 275

 * [T]he right hon. Baronet at the head of the Government is a man of considerable capabilities as a legislator: he possesses great talents for debate, for the management of this House, and for the transaction of official business. He has great knowledge, and I doubt not is actuated by a sincere desire to promote the interests of the country; but it is impossible for me with truth to deny that there is too much ground for the reproaches of those who having, in spite of bitter experience, a second time trusted him and raised him to power, have found themselves a second time deluded. It is impossible for me not to say that it has been too much the habit of the right hon. Baronet to make use of, when in opposition (as he has done in reference to the present question), passions with which he has not the slightest sympathy, and prejudices which he regards with profound contempt. As soon as he reaches power, a change—a salutary change for the country—takes place. The instruments are flung aside—the ladder by which he climbed is kicked down. This is not a solitary instance, and I am forced to say that this sort of conduct is pursued by the right hon. Baronet on something like a system.
 * Thomas Macaulay, speech in the House of Commons on the Maynooth College Bill (14 April 1845)

 * Lord Robert Cecil while at Oxford occasionally joined in the debates of the Union Society, taking the strong Tory side, and speaking sometimes with a young man's vehemence. I recollect his declaiming that Sir Robert Peel, for breaking up the Conservative party, should be left to lie in the grave of infamy which his tergiversation had dug.
 * Frederick Meyrick, Memories of Life at Oxford and Experiences in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Germany, Spain, and Elsewhere (1905), p. 85

 * [F]or God's sake, be sure, if the King is driven to the wall, of Peel. An appeal to him and his countrymen could not be disregarded. Unless you have Peel, the House of Commons cannot be managed.
 * Earl of Munster to the Duke of Wellington (16 May 1832), quoted in Norman Gash, Sir Robert Peel: The Life of Sir Robert Peel after 1830 (1972), p. 34

 * [T]he people at large did care and enthusiastically care for the Conservative statesman who had sacrificed power to give the millions cheap bread; and there was scarcely a schoolboy who had not got by heart Sir Robert Peel's pathetic expression of his hopes that his name might live in the homes of those whose lot it was to labour, when at the end of their day's toil they recruited their exhausted strength by “abundant and untaxed food, no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.”
 * George Augustus Sala, The Life and Adventures of George Augustus Sala, Vol. I (1895), p. 268

 * Whether he was a model of statesmanship may be doubted. Models of statesmanship are rare, if by a model of statesmanship is meant a great administrator and party leader, a great political philosopher and a great independent orator, all in one. But if the question is whether he was a ruler loved and trusted by the English people there is no arguing against the tears of a nation.
 * Goldwin Smith, ‘Peel, The Right Honourable Sir Robert’, The Encyclopaedia Britannica, or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, Vol. XVII (1859), p. 366

 * For a quarter of a century, at least, he was without question the first public servant of England; not the first in position only, but in knowledge of the public business, and in capacity for transacting it throughout all its departments; the man to whom all good public servants looked up as their model and their worthy chief. He must be credited with all the industry, the self-control, the patience, the judgment which such a part required. His integrity was as great as his other qualities; no jobbery, no connivance at abuses stains his name. Setting party questions aside, he was the man who would have been chosen as the chief ruler of England by the almost unanimous voice of the English people, and a heavy price was paid for party when he was excluded from the administration during ten of the best years of his life, and banished from power at the moment when the national confidence in him was at its height.
 * Goldwin Smith, ‘Sir Robert Peel’, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, New Series, Vol. IX, No. 2 (February 1869), p. 131

 * Peel is, in fact, the embodied reflex of the public mind of England.
 * 'The Morale of Peel', The Spectator (19 April 1845), p. 374

 * Peel's speech is, to me, the most affecting public event which I ever remember: no return of Cicero from exile, no triumphal procession up to the temple of Capitoline Jove, no Appius Claudius in the Roman Senate, no Chatham dying in the House of Lords, could have been a truly grander sight than that great Minister retiring from office, giving to the whole world free trade with one hand, and universal peace with the other, and casting under foot the miserable factions which had dethroned him.
 * Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, reaction to Peel's resignation speech, quoted in George Granville Bradley, Recollections of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, late dean of Westminster : three lectures delivered in Edinburgh in November, 1882 (1883), p. 63

 * [W]hat was Peel really notable for? It was surely the perfection of what may be called “concessionary” Conservatism. This is the concept that the highest virtue in politics is to resist change until change becomes inevitable, and then to concede to it with as little fuss and as much obeisance to tradition as possible... Peel assumed, as most Conservative politicians until Mrs Thatcher generally have, that his political opponents represented the future. Their excesses must be resisted, but most of their causes in the end would prevail and the business of the Conservative Party was to make the transition as smooth as possible.
 * T. E. Utley, ‘Peel's misplaced mantle’, The Times (9 February 1988), p. 16

 * He says no other Minister but Sir Robert Peel could have carried the repeal of the Corn Laws; that half the commercial men in the City would have been against it, had it been attempted by Lord John or anyone else; but their confidence in Sir Robert Peel's knowledge and sagacity is such that they say—‘Upon a question where so much is said on both sides, upon which our own minds are not made up, we feel that the safest course is to trust to him who has proved himself the greatest financier of the day’.
 * Charles Pelham Villiers, quoted in Lady Westmoreland to Charles Arbuthnot (8 June 1846), quoted in Norman Gash, Sir Robert Peel: The Life of Sir Robert Peel after 1830 (1972), p. 605

 * Your Lordships must all feel the high and honourable character of the late Sir Robert Peel. I was long connected with him in public life. We were both in the councils of our Sovereign together, and I had long the honour to enjoy his private friendship. In all the course of my acquaintance with Sir Robert Peel, I never knew a man in whose truth and justice I had a more lively confidence, or in whom I saw a more invariable desire to promote the public service. In the whole course of my communication with him I never knew an instance in which he did not show the strongest attachment to truth; and I never saw in the whole course of my life the smallest reason for suspecting that he stated anything which he did not firmly believe to be the fact.
 * Duke of Wellington, speech in the House of Lords (4 July 1850), quoted in Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, Third Series, Commencing with the Accession of William IV, Vol. CXII (1850), column 865

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Aiden Wilson Tozer (April 21, 1897 – May 12, 1963), also known as A.W. Tozer, was an American Protestant pastor, preacher, author, magazine editor, Bible conference speaker and spiritual mentor.

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 * In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone!
 * I Talk Back to the Devil: Essays in Spiritual Perfection (1990).

 * It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.
 * Glorify his name!, The Root of the Righteous, Ch. 39.

 * God wants us to worship Him. He doesn't need us, for He couldn't be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody, but He wants us. When Adam sinned it was not he who cried, 'God, where art Thou?' It was God who cried, 'Adam, where art thou?'
 * Worship: The Missing Jewel as quoted in Vernon K. McLellan (2000), Twentieth century thoughts that shaped the church p. 265.

 * Some of my friends good-humoredly – and some a little bit severely – have called me a 'mystic.' Well I'd like to say this about any mysticism I may suppose to have. If an arch-angel from heaven were to come, and were to start giving me, telling me, teaching me, and giving me instruction, I'd ask him for the text. I'd say, 'Where's it say that in the Bible? I want to know.' And I would insist that it was according to the scriptures, because I do not believe in any extra-scriptural teachings, nor any anti-scriptural teachings, or any sub-scriptural teachings. I think we ought to put the emphasis where God puts it, and continue to put it there, and to expound the scriptures, and stay by the scriptures. I wouldn't – no matter if I saw a light above the light of the sun, I'd keep my mouth shut about it 'til I'd checked with Daniel and Revelation and the rest of the scriptures to see if it had any basis in truth. And if it didn't, I'd think I'd just eaten something I shouldn't, and I wouldn't say anything about it. Because I don't believe in anything that is unscriptural or that is anti-scripture.
 * What Difference Does the Holy Spirit Make?

 * Whatever else it embraces, true Christian experience must always include a genuine encounter with God. Without this, religion is but a shadow, a reflection of reality, a cheap copy of an original once enjoyed by someone else of whom we have heard. It cannot but be a major tragedy in the life of any man to live in a church from childhood to old age and know nothing more real than some synthetic god compounded of theology and logic, but having no eyes to see, no ears to hear, and no heart to love.
 * God's Pursuit of Man, Ch. 1.

 * The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians. They are facing Christ and the world. ...The ‘worship’ growing out of such a view of life is as far off center as the view itself—a sort of sanctified nightclub without the champagne and the dressed-up drunks."
 * This World: Playground or Battleground? pp. 5-6

 * Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again. … The thoughtful soul to solitude retires," said the poet of other and quieter times; but where is the solitude to which we can retire today? Science, which has provided men with certain material comforts, has robbed them of their souls by surrounding them with a world hostile to their existence.
 * Of God and Men, p. 125

 * We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.
 * Of God and Men, p. 12

 * Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.
 * Of God and Men, p. 39

 * Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.
 * The Size of the Soul, p. 22

 * I find that many men and women are troubled by the thought that they are too small and inconsequential in the scheme of things. But that is not our real trouble—we are actually too big and too complex, for God made us in His image and we are too big to be satisfied with what the world offers us! … Man is bored, because he is too big to be happy with that which sin is giving him. God has made him too great, his potential is too mighty.
 * Who Put Jesus on the Cross, p. 170

 * We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.
 * As quoted in The Banner, Dec. 4, 1970, p. 2.

The Root of the Righteous (1955)

 * Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications. We arrange things so that we can get on well enough without divine aid, while at the same time ostensibly seeking it.
 * p. 39.

 * In our constant struggle to believe we are likely to overlook the simple fact that a bit of healthy disbelief is sometimes as needful as faith to the welfare of our souls. I would go further and say that we would do well to cultivate a reverent skepticism. It will keep us out of a thousand bogs and quagmires where others who lack it sometimes find themselves. It is no sin to doubt some things, but it may be fatal to believe everything. Faith is at the root of all true worship, and without faith it is impossible to please God. Through unbelief Israel failed to inherit the promises. “By grace are ye saved through faith.” “The just shall live by faith.” Such verses as these come trooping to our memories, and we wince just a little at the suggestion that unbelief may also be a good and useful thing. … Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything. Faith engages the person and promises of God and rests upon them with perfect assurance. Whatever has behind it the character and word of the living God is accepted by faith as the last and final truth from which there must never be any appeal. Faith never asks questions when it has been established that God has spoken. 'Yea, let God be true, but every man a liar' (Rom. 3:4). Thus faith honors God by counting Him righteous and accepts His testimony against the very evidence of its own senses. That is faith, and of such we can never have too much. Credulity, on the other hand, never honors God, for it shows as great a readiness to believe anybody as to believe God Himself. The credulous person will accept anything as long as it is unusual, and the more unusual it is the more ardently he will believe. Any testimony will be swallowed with a straight face if it only has about it some element of the eerie, the preternatural, the unearthly.
 * Chapter 34.

 * Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.
 * p. 116.

 * Any belief that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only.
 * Chapter 13.

The Pursuit of God (1957)

 * ...if my fire is not large, it is yet real, and there may be those who can light their candle at its flame. (forward).

 * Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

 * Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free.

 * We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.

 * When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than "I AM."

 * The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.

 * In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.

 * To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart.

 * Apart from sin we have nothing of which to be ashamed. Only an evil desire to shine makes us want to appear other than we are.

The Knowledge of the Holy (1978)

 * God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which He must work.
 * p. 53.

 * What comes to mind when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

Man: The Dwelling Place of God (1992)

 * One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

 * The truly spiritual man is indeed something of an oddity. He lives not for himself but to promote the interests of Another. He seeks to persuade people to give all to his Lord and asks no portion or share for himself. He delights not to be honored but to see his Saviour glorified in the eyes of men. His joy is to see his Lord promoted and himself neglected. He finds few who care to talk about that which is the supreme object of his interest, so he is often silent and preoccupied in the midst of noisy religious shoptalk. For this he earns the reputation of being dull and overserious, so he is avoided and the gulf between him and society widens. He searches for friends upon whose garments he can detect the smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces, and finding few or none he, like Mary of old, keeps these things in his heart.

 * To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.
 * p. 114.

 * God … must always be sought for Himself, never as a means toward something else. Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God. The mighty God, the maker of heaven and earth, will not be one of many treasures, not even the chief of all treasures. He will be all in all or He will be nothing. God will not be used.
 * p. 56-57.

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 * Now what do I do with this handful of my own feces?

 * Fat Man Goes Berzerk!

 * What are you going to do with a house that reeks of Chihuahua urine?

 * I don't know. This may make me fertile again.

 * I was the only Mary-Kay douche salesman.

 * I had a visit from my special friend and he was angry!

 * Frisée is stupid.

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Tadamichi Kuribayashi

Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Japanese:栗林忠道 Kuribayashi Tadamichi) (1891-07-07 in Nagano prefecture, Japan - 1945-03-23 on Iwo Jima, Japan) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, part-time writer, haiku poet, diplomat, and commanding officer of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff. He is best known for having been the overall commander of the Japanese garrison during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

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 * All officers of Chichi Jima, goodbye from Iwo
 * His last radio transmission to the Japanese military headquarters.

 * We are sorry indeed we could not have defended the island successfully. Now I, Kuribayashi, believe that the enemy will invade Japan proper from this island. … I am very sorry, because I can imagine the scenes of disaster in our empire. However, I comfort myself a little, seeing my officers and men die without regret after struggling in this inch-by-inch battle against an overwhelming enemy with many tanks and being exposed to indescribable bombardments. … I would like now to apologize to my senior and fellow officers for not being strong enough to stop the enemy invasion.
 * His last radio transmission to the Japanese military headquarters.

 * "We are still fighting", Kuribayashi radioed on March 22. "The strength under my command is now about four hundred. Tanks are attacking us. The enemy suggested we surrender through loudspeaker, but our officers and men just laughed and paid no attention."
 * James Bradley, Flags of Our Fathers, p. 245.

 * Do not plan for my return...
 * To his wife Yoshie Kuribayashi.
 *

 * You must not expect my survival...
 * Letter to his wife.

 * The US is the last country in the world we should fight.
 * Letter to his wife.

 * The enemy may land on this island soon. Once they do, we must follow the fate of those on Attu and Saipan. Our officers and men know about “Death” very well. I am sorry to end my life here, fighting the United States of America, but I want to defend this island as long as possible and to delay the enemy air raids on Tokyo. Ah! You have worked well for a long time as my wife and the mother of my three children. Your life will become harder and more precarious. Watch out for your health and live long. The future of our children will not be easy either. Please take care of them after my death.
 * Letter to his wife shortly before the Battle of Iwo Jima.

 * The battle is approaching its end. Since the enemy’s landing, even the gods would weep at the bravery of the officers and men under my command. … [My] men died one by one, and I regret very much that I have allowed the enemy to occupy a piece of Japanese territory.
 * Radio message to Imperial Japanese Army's vice chief of staff.

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The result was: delete all. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:29, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Free Willzyx
This is a single episode of South Park that was dumped in from the Wikiquote article. There is already a South Park page, but this episode isn't in it. Could someone merge it? (It would be episode 9.13). If it's just a matter of cutting and pasting I can do it, but I'm not sure if the history needs to be merged or something. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Koweja (talk • contribs) 22:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Appended nomination Towelie (South Park episode) and Trapped in the Closet (South Park episode) are also nominated for the same reasons. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Koweja (talk • contribs) 22:55, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Vote closes 12 January 2007, 0100 (UTC)
 * Vote extended to 19 January 2007, 01:00 (UTC) to allow more more people to weigh in, especially on this, where the scope of action may potentially go beyond the pages nominated here. —LrdChaos (talk) 16:13, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete all (2 deletes; 1 deferral). I will archive this in the "Pending" section of Votes for deletion/Log until the merge issues have been resolved. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:29, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Merge Let someone who knows what they're doing handle it Koweja 22:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: The problem is MUCH worse than this. User:Savidan has left us with a maintenance nightmare. They decided to transfer all the quotes from Wikipedia articles for South Park episodes, but rather than add them to South Park or create season articles which might be manageable (which has since been done), they created new copyvio-bait episode articles. Worse yet, they don't seem to have any of the required edit histories to give the articles the proper credit required by GFDL. It looks like most of the articles were merged into either the main article or the newer season articles, but again I didn't notice any edit histories for the merges, so now we have credit-less material two steps removed from the actual contributors. This is the worse screw-up of transwiki and merger I've ever seen in Wikimedia. I can understand why our editors might make the merger mistake, faced with the horrible challenge of hundreds of mergers, but this is unacceptable behavior from a Wikipedian whose "activity on Wikiquote is mostly to transwiki collections of quotations which have been misplaced on Wikipedia", to quote Savidan's WQ user page. And this person is a Wikipedia sysop! I have left an angry message on Savidan's WP talk page asking how they plan to help us fix this mess they created. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:29, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Lovely. I don't know much about transwiking, but wouldn't it be easiest to just delete the pages off of WQ then retranswiki from WP using old versions of the WP episode pages? If not it would seem that deleting the pages from wikiquote and wikipedia would be better than the licensing problems we currently have. Certainly would be better than us getting shut down. Koweja 05:43, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, most of the problem lies in the episodes that have already been merged, so no matter what we do with this handful, we have a massive cleanup effort to do. Technically, for the sake of WP contributors wondering what happened to their contributions, we should log the transwikis for each and every article Savidan transferred at Transwiki, including their ultimate fates (merge for most, plus whatever we decide for these), as well as paste edit histories on relevant talk pages for material that survived. Of the currently active editors, I know that Kalki, Aphaia, and I know how to do this correctly, but there may be others, and it's not that hard to learn. I'd be willing to help anyone who wants to give it a shot. I'd do it myself, but I'm still exhausted from real-life stuff, waiting to get past certain activities. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:32, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Delete all of the incorrectly-transwiki'd but not merged pages (even beyond the scope of this VFD, I'd say), and then go back over the ones that are merged and assemble the edit histories for those. (I know that I did a lot of merging of individual South Park episode pages that had been tagged for such a merge; I didn't think to check to see if they had been part of a transwiki, or if it had been done correctly.) —LrdChaos (talk) 14:42, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete all and merge edit histories for others, per LrdChaos. Since we're supposed to log transwikied article deletions at Transwiki, I'll do this if we decide on "delete" for the nominated articles, to show how that part can be done. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:15, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

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