Let sleeping dogs lie.

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?

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

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

All those men have their price.

All history is a lie!

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.