We are determined to listen to nothing from the illegal congress.

Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.

I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States.

The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat.

Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you — what — was there not sad stuff?

Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.