Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned.

I have lived long enough in the world, Sir, . . . to know that the safety of a minister lies in his having the approbation of this House. Former ministers, Sir, neglected this, and therefore they fell; I have always made it my first study to obtain it.

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

All those men have their price.

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

Let sleeping dogs lie.

[Read] anything but history,.. for history must be false.