I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.
To build is to be robbed.
We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.
A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company
Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.
A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest