Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

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.

I am called repeatedly and insidiously prime and sole minister.

Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.

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

All those men have their price.

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?

But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors.

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

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.

Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned.

But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown.

I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side.

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

If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.

Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?

Let sleeping dogs lie.

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!

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

And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due regard for our constitution and for the rights and prerogatives of the crown, without which our constitution can not be preserved, will be against this motion.

And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.

Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense.

I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.

It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

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

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

Me mum used to always have the radio on - even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames that reason for me not doing that well at school - constant noise, really.

We have a problem. Congratulations. But its a tough problem. Then double congratulations.

I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.

Habit is the most imperious of all masters.

The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself.

We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.

Shawn Kemp was the player that I grew up watching, when he was with the SuperSonics.

There ain't no troubles that we can't rise above, with a handful of faith and a heartful of love.

You can't chase everybody on the Internet who's saying stuff about you, that's for sure.

I've always needed to bulk up, so until the modeling took off I was ramming Big Macs down my throat and doing plenty of bodyweight work. I'm over the Big Macs now, but I'll still drop down and do my press ups whenever I find the time.

I designed a tattoo for a girl once, and she got it, which I thought was pretty cool. We no longer speak. She'll always remember me, though - I can guarantee that.

I've never been one to bet on the weather.

Critique feedback reaction to ones work or the way they have presented it regardless of intention is a gift.

As long as my husband's looking at me, that's all I care about!

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

Stay away from people who try to belittle your faith goals and ambitions. follow your heart and keep pushing forward.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties donations and benefits.

Especially, I don't want to ever be compared to The Rock because I'd be the poor man's version of The Rock. I'm just not him; it's not who I am as a person or as a performer. The Rock's very big and bold, and I'm not.

I always have issues with trust.