Let sleeping dogs lie.

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

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.

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

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.

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

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