Quotes by statesmen

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners. Robert Grosseteste

And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid. Robert Grosseteste

Best You Confidence Guard Corn Those Leading Most Household Advise Doing August Send Place Lands Your Whom Present

And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock. Robert Grosseteste

Money Corn Wines Kitchen Arrange Courts Wages Issues Stock Expenses Subtract Wardrobe Your Servants

And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need. Robert Grosseteste

Strangers More Shall Supper Come According Served Need

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands. Robert Grosseteste

Good Sheep Year Ought Hundred Marks Thousand Thousands Counting Least Yield Pasture Wool Forth Fifty Two

Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago. Robert Jackson

Could Know Doing Years Years Ago Even Things

You can't lose a game in which you're not even competing. Robert Kocharian

You Game Lose Which Even Competing

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women. Robert Menzies

Women Men Few Enough Say Understand Am Few Men Honest

We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done. Robert Mugabe

Will First Responses Would Would-Be Step Openly First Step Said Get Done Owners Inform Land Designate Second

Zimbabwe will never be a colony again. Robert Mugabe

Will Colony Never Again Zimbabwe

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency. Robert Mugabe

You Vote People Will Free Own Soldiers Cast Area Know Go His Campaign Any Anyone Anywhere Who Right

And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes. Robert Walpole

Made Nation Our Sole Sole Purpose Unnecessary Has-Been Charge Abolition Preventing Purpose Most Discharge Been Debts Burdened Expenses Taxes Here

Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own? Robert Walpole

Admitting Argument Country Own Other Other Countries Sole Minister My Own Prime Countries Well Answerable Am However Sake Conduct Europe Therefore

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot. Robert Walpole

Patriotism Starts Insolent Unreasonable Demand Up Refusing Patriot Gratify

But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown. Robert Walpole

Crime Made Remove Think Address Must Alleging Crown Majesty Particular Him Without Greatest His Any Against Much Ever Servants

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

Whatever Equally Am Conduct England

The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense. Robert Walpole

Before Every Has-Been Parliament Been Article Accounts Expense Laid Which Public Regular Uses Treasure Applied

No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament. Robert Walpole

Incurred Approved Has-Been Parliament Been Provided Expense

Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient. Robert Walpole

Words Dangers Charged Particular Court Affected Nor Account Tranquillity Wanting Which Public View Show Many Whole Each Sufficient

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected. Robert Walpole

Life Liberty Will My Life Several Carried Has-Been Neither Observed Gentlemen Motion Affected Been Nor Estate Should Vindication