It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.

Disaffection stalks around us.

And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

Our private property must be sacrificed.

Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.

At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.

It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.

When I shall again write to you, or where I shall be tomorrow, I cannot tell.

Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.

You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.

Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.

It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.

Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions.

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

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out.

Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds.

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Gentlemen, start your egos.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.

I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.

But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.

I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister.

Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had better news for you but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. This is a threat that we've never faced before.

I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.