The Character of Sir Robert Peel

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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.... Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Walter Bagehot

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Topic

Conformity Custom and convention

Author

Walter Bagehot

Source

The Character of Sir Robert Peel

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1856 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Bagehot, Walter. "The Character of Sir Robert Peel." National Review, July 1856.

Current Citation

Bagehot, Walter. "The Character of Sir Robert Peel." The Best of Bagehot. Hamish Hamilton, 1993.