Robert Walpole Quotes

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

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• IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

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• No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.

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• Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.

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• 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.

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• Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned.

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• 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.

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• Let sleeping dogs lie.

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• 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?

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• 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!

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• Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

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Robert Walpole (31)

Birth:	26th August, 1676
Death:	18th March, 1745
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Statesman

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Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, KB, PC, known before 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman who is generally regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.

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