"Most accursed, wicked, barbarous, cruel, unnatural, unjust and diabolical."

"What I have now offered is meant merely for the sake of my country, for the simple question is: will you change your …"

"That beautiful frame of government which had made us the envy and admiration of mankind, in which the people were ent…"

"I feel, Sir, at this instant, how much I had been animated in my childhood by a recital of England's victories:&mdash…"

"Here's to the Pilot that weather'd the Storm!"

"I will repeat then, Sir, that it is not this treaty, it is the Earl of Shelburne alone whom the movers of this questi…"

"You may take from me, Sir, the privileges and emoluments of place, but you cannot, and you shall not, take from me th…"

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."

"I came up no backstairs... Little did I think to be ever charged in this House with being the tool and abettor of sec…"

"I do not wish...to call myself any Thing but an Independent Whig. Which in words is hardly a distinction, as every on…"