"Had he to choose between the re-enactment of the popery laws and Catholic emancipation, coupled with parliamentary re…"

"My determination is to keep clear of all parties, to avoid the reality, and, as far as possible, even the appearance …"

"I have said, and said most truly, that if the country was well governed, and its affairs ably conducted, I cared litt…"

"The basis of Protestant Union, and the material of all public declarations against further concession should be an un…"

"Until it is proved that some great practical evil is justly attributable to the present structure of that House, and …"

"The person who addressed me was a tall, square, and bony figure, upwards of fifty years of age, I should suppose, and…"

"Pitt is to Addington As London is to Paddington."

"But without Pitt nothing, in the opinion of the country or of Europe, could be strong—an axiom of which Addington was…"

"No one in the present day will differ much from you in your estimate of the mediocrity of Addington and his Governmen…"

"But however the higher and more intellectual class, perhaps London, might estimate him, Addington had a hold on the c…"