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Top 20 Robert Walpole Quotes (2025 Update)

Robert Walpole Quote: “Let sleeping dogs lie.”

1. “Let sleeping dogs lie.”

— Robert Walpole

Robert Walpole Quote: “All history is a lie!”

2. “All history is a lie!”

— Robert Walpole

Robert Walpole Quote: “Every man has his price.”

3. “Every man has his price.”

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Robert Walpole Quote: “I took the right sow by the ear.”

4. “I took the right sow by the ear.”

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Robert Walpole Quote: “The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.”

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

— Robert Walpole

Robert Walpole Quote: “Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o’clock it was.”

6. “Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o’clock it was.”

— Robert Walpole

Robert Walpole Quote: “It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.”

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

— Robert Walpole

Robert Walpole Quote: “I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.”

8. “I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.”

— Robert Walpole

Robert Walpole Quote: “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!”

9. “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

Robert Walpole Quote: “I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.”

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

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Robert Walpole Quote: “No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.”

11. “No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.”

— Robert Walpole

Robert Walpole Quote: “Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.”

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

— Robert Walpole

Robert Walpole Quote: “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.”

13. “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

Robert Walpole Quote: “Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I am afraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried a republic last century, and it failed. Let our enemies try next. I hate political experiments.”

14. “Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I am afraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried a republic last century, and it failed. Let our enemies try next. I hate political experiments.”

— Robert Walpole

Robert Walpole Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Robert Walpole Quote: “Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?”

16. “Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?”

— Robert Walpole

Robert Walpole Quote: “Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.”

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

— Robert Walpole

Robert Walpole Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— Robert Walpole

Robert Walpole Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Robert Walpole Quote: “Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned.”

20. “Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned.”

— Robert Walpole

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