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Robert Walpole

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

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Donna Grant

"Politicians look for interests not people."

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Donna Grant

"When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force."

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Donna Grant

"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."

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Donna Grant

"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."

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Donna Grant

"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

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Donna Grant

"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."

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Donna Grant

"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties."

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Donna Grant

"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."

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Donna Grant

"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."

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Donna Grant

"Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong."

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Robert Walpole
"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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Robert Walpole
"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."

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Robert Walpole
"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?"

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Robert Walpole
"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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Robert Walpole
"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."

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Robert Walpole
"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?"

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Robert Walpole
"All those men have their price."

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Robert Walpole
"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."

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

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Robert Walpole
"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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