I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

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

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.

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

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?

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.