"Take our constitution, wanting certainly as it did many reforms, yet, practically, it afforded the best security that human wisdom had ever given to man."

"THEY, by a strange Frenzy driven, fight for Power, for Plunder, and extended Rule—WE, for our Country, our Altars, and our Homes.—THEY follow an ADVENTURER, whom they fear—and obey a Power which they hate—WE serve a Monarch whom we love—a God whom we adore...They call on us to barter all of Good we have inherited and proved, for the desperate Chance of Something better which they promise.—Be our plain Answer this: The Throne WE honour is the PEOPLE'S CHOICE—the Laws we reverence are our brave Fathers' Legacy—the Faith we follow teaches us to live in bonds of Charity with all Mankind, and die with Hope of Bliss beyond the Grave. Tell your Invaders this; and tell them too, we seek no Change; and, least of all, such Change as they would bring us."

"He stated it distinctly...as what he conceived was the unalterable resolution of ministers, that no proposal for peace should be entertained, while a single French soldier had a footing on British ground. [This sentiment was universally applauded.]"

"My visits to you may possibly be misunderstood by my friends; but I hope you know, Mr. Addington, that I have an unpurchasable mind."

"Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, — by deeds, not years..."

"Such protection as vultures give to lambs."

"While his off-heel, insidiously aside, Provokes the caper which he seems to chide."

"He was of opinion that the Press should be unfettered; that its freedom should be, as indeed it was, commensurate with the freedom of the People, and the well-being of a virtuous State: on that account, he thought that even one hundred libels had better be ushered into the world, than one prosecution be instituted which might endanger the liberty of the press of this country."

"I will not say that there have been no instances of sedition; but I will affirm even that the evidence of these appears in so questionable a shape as ought to excite your suspicion. It is supported by a system of spies and informers, a system which has been carried to a greater extent under the present administration, than in any former period of the history of the country. ... [T]he government which avails itself of such support does not exist for the happiness of the people. It is a system which is calculated to engender suspicion, and to beget hostility; it not only destroys all confidence between man and man, but between the governors and the governed; where it does not find sedition, it creates it."

"Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike — no bail, no demurrer."

"An apothecary should never be out of spirits."

"I know nothing of music; I would not give a farthing for all the music in the universe."

"You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home."

"Hic depositum est Corpus IONATHAN SWIFT S.T.D. Hujus Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Decani, Ubi sæva Indignatio Ulterius Cor lacerare nequit, Abi Viator Et imitare, si poteris, Strenuum pro virili Libertatis Vindicatorem."

"There's two words to that bargain."

"Sharp's the word with her."

"There was all the world and his wife."

"She pays him in his own coin."

"She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse."

"There is none so blind as they that won't see."

"'T is happy for him that his father was before him."

"Better belly burst than good liquor be lost."

"I thought you and he were hand-in-glove."

"I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs."

"I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water."

"I have fed like a farmer: I shall grow as fat as a porpoise."

"May you live all the days of your life."

"I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me "spade"."

"The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman."

"They say a carpenter's known by his chips."

"Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing!"

"She has more goodness in her little finger, than he has in his whole body."

"Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives."

"You must take the will for the deed."

"That's as well said, as if I had said it myself."

"He was a bold man that first ate an oyster."

"Lord M. What religion is he of? Lord Sp. Why, he is an Anythingarian."

"I mean you lie—under a mistake."

"Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken."

"She wears her clothes, as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork."