Quotes by : Robert Walpole

All those men have their price.

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

It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent....

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

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes.....

I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can....

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