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It is but refusing to gratify...

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

Robert Walpole 49 quotes

Oh, do not read history, for ...

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

Robert Walpole 49 quotes

But I must think that an addr...

But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown.

Robert Walpole 49 quotes

Some members of both Houses h...

Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?

Robert Walpole 49 quotes

And here a most heinous charg...

And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.

Robert Walpole 49 quotes

I have lived long enough in t...

I have lived long enough in the world, Sir, . . . to know that the safety of a minister lies in his having the approbation of this House. Former ministers, Sir, neglected this, and therefore they fell; I have always made it my first study to obtain it.

Robert Walpole 49 quotes

Every man has his price. ...

Every man has his price.

Robert Walpole 49 quotes

The gratitude of place-expect...

The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.

Robert Walpole 49 quotes

Admitting, however, for the s...

Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

Robert Walpole 49 quotes

I can not, therefore, see how...

I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.

Robert Walpole 49 quotes

Though I admire republican pr...

Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I am afraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried a republic last century, and it failed. Let our enemies try next. I hate political experiments.

Robert Walpole 49 quotes

Wherever they have been arrai...

Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense.

Robert Walpole 49 quotes

It has from the beginning bee...

It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

Robert Walpole 49 quotes

Have I given any symptoms of ...

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

Robert Walpole 49 quotes

The public treasure has been ...

The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.

Robert Walpole 49 quotes

I will not attempt to deny th...

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

Robert Walpole 49 quotes

I happened to be one of those...

I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side.

Robert Walpole 49 quotes

And therefore, for the sake o...

And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due regard for our constitution and for the rights and prerogatives of the crown, without which our constitution can not be preserved, will be against this motion.

Robert Walpole 49 quotes

Let sleeping dogs lie. ...

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Robert Walpole 49 quotes

The very idea of true patriot...

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

Robert Walpole 49 quotes

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