Robert Walpole
9 quotes
Biography
"All those men have their price."
"The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours."
"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!"
"Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced."
"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."
"Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false."
"It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot."
"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."
"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."