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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.
- Robert Walpole
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And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.
- Robert Walpole
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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?
- Robert Walpole
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Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.
- Robert Walpole
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It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
- Robert Walpole
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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.
- Robert Walpole
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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.
- Robert Walpole
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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?
- Robert Walpole
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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.
- Robert Walpole
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Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned.
- Robert Walpole
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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.
- Robert Walpole
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I am called repeatedly and insidiously prime and sole minister.
- Robert Walpole
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No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.
- Robert Walpole
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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.
- Robert Walpole
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Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.
- Robert Walpole
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I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.
- Robert Walpole
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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.
- Robert Walpole
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All those men have their price.
- Robert Walpole
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Let sleeping dogs lie.
- Robert Walpole
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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!
- Robert Walpole
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