The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

All those men have their price.

[Read] anything but history,.. for history must be false.

I took the right sow by the ear.

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

Every man has his price.

No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.

Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was.

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

Dating a wo/man with a child is adoption … without the paperwork.

...we steal with our eyes closed to the conditions in which the poor, who make our affluence possible, live. We covet what our neighbours have and want more of the same.

When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.

The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both.

Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

The top is not forever. Either you walk down, or you are going to be kicked down.

A world without men would consists of a bunch of fat, happy women with no crime.

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

There is no way to have a strong arm if you don't throw enough.

I don’t know why; when I look at you, I see myself