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• All men have their price. -- commonly ascribed to Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745)
• Anything but history, for history must be false. -- Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745) -- Walpoliana, No.
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• The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.
  -- Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745)...
• 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...
• 'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it. -- Sir Hugh Walpole
• Power is danger. -- The Centurion, "Balance of Terror," stardate 1709.2.
• If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
  -- Isaac Newton (1642-1727) -- Letter to Robert Hooke, 5 February 1676 -- in H....
• Knowledge is power. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• The only solution is...a balance of power. We arm our side with exactly that much more.
  A balance of power -- the trickiest, most difficult, dirtiest game of them all....