My great and principal crime is my long continuance in office or, in other words, the long exclusion of those who now complain against me.
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It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.Robert Walpole
But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown.
Robert Walpole
Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned.
Robert Walpole
All those men have their price.
Robert Walpole
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
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
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