Crown Quote by Robert Walpole

I am called repeatedly and insidiously prime and sole minister.

— Robert Walpole

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the…

— 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…

— Robert Walpole

And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the…

— Robert Walpole

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

— Robert Walpole

Let sleeping dogs lie.

— 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…

— Robert Walpole

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

— 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…

— Robert Walpole

The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.

— Robert Walpole

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

— 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…

— Robert Walpole