When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.

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• Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax:

  Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

• Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax:

  A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

• Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax:

  True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

• Robert Walpole:

  All those men have their price.

• Robert Walpole:

  Let sleeping dogs lie.

• Robert Walpole:

  Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

• Robert Walpole:

  Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an

• Robert Walpole:

  Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned.

• Robert Walpole:

  The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of pu

• Robert Walpole:

  The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, a