Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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The Importance of a Good Government
The worst impediment that a minister can have is a colleague in his cabinet who spoils superior ability by perversities of restlessness and agitism. There is not one of the able men ostracized as it is called by wall pole whose political steadiness and personal fidelity he could safely trust, says Sir Edward Woolf. Wall pole was the least unscrupulous of all his contemporaries from men of genius like bollingbrook and carteret to mediocre personage like the duke of new castle. He relied more than they did on what after all in every age is the only solid foundation of political power though it may not always lead to the longest terms of office.
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