Source: 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.
Trial of the Earl of Thanet, and others (1799), 27 How. St. Tr. 940.
Hannity's America, May 13, 2007 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWoHh4_rVdg http://transcripts.wikia.com/wiki/Sean_Hannity_Christopher_Hitchens_Hannity%27s_America_May13%2C_2007?venotify=created
2000s, 2007
“To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.”
History and Utopia (1960)
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part III: Government as substitute husband, p. 255.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
“It was the most disgusting speech I ever heard in my life.”
comment on a controversial speech given by Al Gore at the same APEC summit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh0BO906vyI, in which he praised demonstrations in Malaysia protesting the arrest of Anwar Ibrahim as champions of democracy.
Malaysian Politicians Say the Darndest Things
“Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.”
Reported in Louis Klopsch, ed., Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896), p. 195.
Source: Speech to the Conservatives of Manchester (3 April 1872), cited in The World's Best Orations from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Vol. 1 (eds. David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler), pp. 309-338
“Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others.”
The Great Infidels (1881)
Context: Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance as the title page and Preface to a most learned volume. So they are easily imposed upon by forms, strange garments, and solemn ceremonies. And when the teaching of parents, the customs of neighbors, and the general tongue approve and justify a belief or creed, no matter how absurd, it is hard even for the strongest to hold the citadel of his soul. In each country, in defence of each religion, the same arguments would be urged.
