George Granville

“ We have lived, and we yet live to be trampled upon, by the vilest, the most ignominious of all Tyranny, the Tyranny of Ministers, the Tyranny of Fellow Subjects, raised from the Dirt of Faction, supported by Senates, chosen and directed by Corruption. ”

“ What are we then to expect from such a Set of rash and daring Politicians, as openly bid Defiance to God and Man? Is there the least Hopes remaining, but in the Union of honest Men, true Lovers of their Country; who, have Virtue enough to sacrifice all private Considerations to the Publick Good? ”

“ Brutus was a sworn Enemy to Pompey, the Murderer of his Father; but when it happened that Rome must perish, or Pompey be supported, Brutus became Pompey’s Friend.
Brutus took an Oath to Cæsar, but Brutus never swore to be an Enemy to his Country.
Brutus owed much to Cæsar, but Brutus thought private Benefits as well as private Injuries, were to be sacrificed to the Publick Safety. And Brutus was an honourable Man.
The Interest of the State is the First Object of Men of Honour; Piety and Loyalty are included in it; to be false to one’s Country is to be false to God and the King. ”

“ By the Artifice of cunning and designing Men, who have been to long, kept divided in Parties, and exasperated against one another without Sense or Reason, only to help them to climb, and be a Ladder for ambitious Knaves. ”

“ We have lived to see our antient Constitution in a manner dissolved, and the most important Articles of our new Contract, upon settling the Protestant Succession, Evaded, Suspended,or set aside; the Wealth and Strength of the Kingdom exhausted in Foreign Quarrels, and for Foreign Acquisitions; the very Nation it self Sold to make Purchases abroad and to enrich Strangers. ”

“ Impious and Execrable! when our Persons were become free from the Suspicion of Treason, a Law was made to make us liable to the Suspicion of Infection, that when our Goals are empty, our Pest-Houses may be filled at their Pleasure. ”