- Price
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let sleeping dogs lie.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.
- Defense
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Patriotism
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Expense
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- Nov 07, 2020
No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.
- Show
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Patriot
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Diminution
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.
- Parliament
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Crown
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- Nov 07, 2020