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Robert Walpole brit államférfi, Orford első grófja, a Térdszalagrend lovagja, királyi titkos tanácsos, Horace Walpole író édesapja. Az első, akit „Nagy-Britannia miniszterelnökének” szokás nevezni, bár a maga idejében ez a cím hivatalosan még nem létezett. A kabinet feletti befolyása révén azonban egyértelműen ő volt az „első” miniszter. Úgy vélte, mindenki megvásárolható, ami a korabeli Angliára meglehetősen jellemző volt, így hatalma idején sorra megvásárolta az embereket.

A whig politikus I. és II. György uralkodása alatt volt kormánytag. Szolgálati idejét általában 1721-től számítják, amikor a Kincstár Első Lordja lett, némelyek azonban 1730-tól datálják, amikor Lord Charles Townshend visszavonulásával a kabinet egyedüli és vitathatatlan vezetője lett. A korabeli, különösen az ellenzéki sajtó rendszerint a hosszabb időtartammal számolt, jóval nagyobb figyelmet szentelve neki, mint Townshendnek. Walpole 1742-es visszavonulásáig vezette a kormányt, ezzel ő a brit történelem leghosszabb ideig hivatalban volt miniszterelnöke. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. augusztus 1676 – 18. március 1745
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Robert Walpole: Idézetek angolul

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

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Robert Walpole

Prime Minister
Forrás: Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), stating "Hazlitt, in his Wit and Humour, says, 'This is Walpole’s phrase'". Compare: "La reconnaissance de la plupart des hommes n'est qu'une secrète envie de recevoir de plus grands bienfaits" (translated: "The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits"), François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxim 298.

“All those men have their price.”

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Robert Walpole

Prime Minister
Forrás: Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), stating "'All men have their price' is commonly ascribed to Walpole", and citing Coxe, Memoirs of Walpole, Vol. iv, p. 369: "Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, '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.”

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Forrás: Address https://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/walpole-robert-ii-1676-1745 to the electors of Kings Lynn for the general election of 1713 against the Treaty of Utrecht

“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 violence of a party and entirely innocent.”

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Robert Walpole

Forrás: Letter https://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/walpole-robert-ii-1676-1745 (c. January 1712). On 17 January 1712 the case against Walpole for bribery was heard in the House of Commons and he was voted by a majority of more than 50 to have been guilty of "a high breach of trust and notorious corruption". By further votes he was committed to the Tower of London and expelled from the Commons.

“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 which at present are predominant in the civil constitution.”

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Forrás: Speech https://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/walpole-robert-ii-1676-1745 in the House of Commons (10 January 1711)

“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 [William III], whose title to be rightful and lawful king they have all sworn, or where they will find it in the next Protestant successor, for whom they profess an equal zeal, is not very obvious to me.”

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Forrás: Draft speech https://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/walpole-robert-ii-1676-1745 for the trial of Dr Henry Sacheverell

“The doctrine of unlimited passive obedience was first invented to support arbitrary power, but [was] of no use in her Majesty’s reign, where the law was the only measure of the regal power and people's obedience; and since it could be of no use or security to her Majesty there could be no other aim in it than to unhinge the government, and clear the way to the impostor's title. In fine, if the sin of resistance was damnable, there must a sincere repentance ensue to wash away the guilt, and this could not be done without restitution.”

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Forrás: Speech https://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/walpole-robert-ii-1676-1745 at the trial of Dr Henry Sacheverell (28 February 1710)