Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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The Dangers of Being Wedded to Power
wall pole must be pronounced to have got discredit for more wrong than he ever did the accusation that wall pole was intensely wedded to power is so little grave as hardly to be an accusation at all any man with conscious faculty of strength and a love of the active business of government is naturally wedded toPower. A practical statesman conscious of ability for a ruling part in large public transactions will be as fond of power as wall pole was or as pit wall pole moreover like most great ministers identified his own personality with high objects of national policy private triumphs were never separated in his mind from the success of public causes. quote my lord sachadam to the duke of debenture i am
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