The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.

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

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

Every man has his price.

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?

Let sleeping dogs lie.