"If they are really persuaded that the army……" — Robert Walpole
"If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion."
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Robert Walpole
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27 Quotes by Robert Walpole
Robert Walpole has 27 quotes on this site.
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Let sleeping dogs lie.
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The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes.…
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Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.
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Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have…
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Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the…
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IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my…
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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…
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It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
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I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war…
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I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.
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Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.
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Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned.
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More Annually Quotes
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The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scarface' and 'Fantasia.'
— Nicolas Cage
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It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? ... Is it healthy for our economy to have 18…
— Dan Quayle
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Dr. Oaks made the remark that, according to the best estimate he could make, there were four hundred murders annually…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa…
— Frances Ford Seymour
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There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time…
— Paul Bartsch
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When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came…
— Barack Obama
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Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It…
— Navi Pillay
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It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now…
— Bjorn Lomborg
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He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting…
— Thomas Jefferson
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