"The doctrine of unlimited passive obedience was first invented to support arbitrary power, but [was] of no use in her…"

"I am at a loss to discover where they will find this divine right in our government, or at least where they do find i…"

"It is obvious, that the people of England are at this moment animated against each other, with a spirit of hatred and…"

"The most unrighteous judgment was passed upon me in the House that was ever heard of...against the most positive evid…"

"All those men have their price."

"The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours."

"He was an honorable man and a sound Whig. He was not, as the Jacobites and discontented Whigs of his time have repres…"

"In private life he was good natured, Chearfull, social. Inelegant in his manners, loose in his morals. He had a coars…"

"I am sensible that Sr Robert, who is at once both a Wagg and a boaster, would be apt to ridicule these hopes of mine …"

"Anything but history, for history must be false."