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• The balance of power. -- Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745) -- Speech, 1741
• All men have their price. -- commonly ascribed to Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745)
• The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.
  -- Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745)...
• Television -- the longest amateur night in history. -- Robert Carso
• It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book xiv, Sect. 141...
• History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
• 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.
  -- Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745) -- Coxe: Memoirs of Walpole, Vol. iv, p. 369...
• Kinguise Khan was a nice man. History doesn't mention it. There must be some moral in it.
• What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
  -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, "Philosophy and History...