Robert Walpole Quotes
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
Walpole, Robert. "Speech on a Motion for his Removal." Select British Eloquence, edited by Chauncey A. Goodrich, Harper & Brothers, 1852, pp. 30-37.
See Delores Ibarruri {604321} and Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the notion in his Third Inaugural Address {32529}. But earlier Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata uttered a similar sentiment: {46999}.
In the Nazi occupation of Denmark in World War II a regulation was issued requiring Jews to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing:. The day after these words were spoken, the king rode his horse in public, wearing the yellow star prominently on his tunic.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the phrase in his Third Inaugural Address {32529}. But the earliest expression that we have found is the Mexican leader Emiliano Zapata {46999} Franklin Delano Roosevelt later used the phrase in his Third Inaugural Address {32529}. But the earliest expression that we have found is the Mexican leader Emiliano Zapata {46999}. This was one of the great quotations to come out of the Spanish Revolution. It inspired freedom loving people the world over, then and through this day.
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, PC (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman and Whig politician who, as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Leader of the House of Commons, is generally regarded as the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
