Few things discover the state of the arts amongst people more certainly than the presents that are made to them by foreigners. - Edmund Burke

I conceive that the Duke of Brunswick is as much fighting the Battle of the Crown of England as the Duke of Cumberland did at Culloden.

I decline the election. — It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.

It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.