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

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of pur...

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All those men have their price.

It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was c...

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

I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can...

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

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Robert Walpole

Former Great Britain. Prime Minister.

Born: 1676-08-26

Died: 1745-03-18

Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman and Whig politician who is generally regarded as the de facto first prime minister of Great Britain.More