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!

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

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

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

Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.

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?