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Robert Walpole Quotes
Page 2 of 2Robert Walpole
August 26, 1676 - March 18, 1745
Nationality: British
Category: Statesman
Subcategory: British Statesman
|  It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot. | | Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false. | | I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts. | | Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy? | | 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? | | 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. | | But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors. |
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