"When trade is at stake, it is your last entrenchment; you must defend it, or perish...Sir, Spain knows the consequenc…"

"It must cut up Liberty by the root and poison the Fountain of Publick Security; and who that has an English heart can…"

"We are now to examine whether it is probable that we shall preserve our commerce and our independence, or whether we …"

"Our seamen have always been famous for a matchless alacrity and intrepidity in time of danger; this has saved many a …"

"I rejoice to hear that you have begun Homer's Iliad; and have made so great a progress in Virgil. I hope you taste an…"

"He wanted to call this country out of that enervate state, that twenty thousand men from France could shake it. The m…"

"Substitute Tully and Demosthenes in the place of Homer and Virgil; and arm yourself with all the variety of manner, c…"

"My Lord, I am sure I can save this country, and no one else can."

"A gloomy scene for this distressed, disgraced country."

"[Pitt said] he saw combinations of great Lords against him but for his part he would go his own way; that he was a Br…"