Quote#World
All those men have their price
Quote byRobert Walpole · 1676–1745
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Prime Minister, Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), stating "'All men have their price' is commonly ascribed to Walpole", and citing Coxe, Memoirs of Walpole, Vol. iv, p. 369: "Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives .
English (original)
All those men have their price.
— Robert Walpole
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