Robert Walpole

"The doctrine of unlimited passive obedience was first invented to support arbitrary power, but of no use in her Majesty’s reign, where the law was the only measure of the regal power and people's obed…"

"It is obvious, that the people of England are at this moment animated against each other, with a spirit of hatred and rancour. It behoves you, in the first place, to find a remedy for these distempers…"

"The most unrighteous judgment was passed upon me in the House that was ever heard of...against the most positive evidence that it was possible in any case to give. ... I am made a sacrifice to the vio…"

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

"I am at a loss to discover where they will find this divine right in our government, or at least where they do find it in the reign of the late King , whose title to be rightful and lawful king they h…"

"Anything but history, for history must be false."

"All those men have their price."

"I dare be bold to affirm that, had the King of France beaten us, as we have done him, he would have been so modest as to have given us better terms than we have gained after all our glorious victories…"