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


— Robert Walpole


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Let sleeping dogs lie.


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


— Robert Walpole


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


— 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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Did you know about Robert Walpole?

His father Robert Walpole was a Whig politician who represented the borough of Castle Rising in the House of Commons. His Name will not be recorded in History among the best men or the best Ministers but much much less ought it to be ranked among the worst. His mother was Mary Walpole (née Burwell) and he was the third of seventeen children eight of whom died during infancy.

Because of his homely ways and strong Norfolk roots he was often known to both friends and detractors as "the fat old Squire of Norfolk. Robert Walpole 1st Earl of Orford KG KB PC (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745) known before 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole was a British statesman who is generally regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. ".

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