- Charles James Fox: Parliament is no place for perambulators.
- The Earl of Chatham and William Pitt: Believe me, the country will prefer them to bath-chairs.
- George the Third: All my life I've tried to make this country manure-minded. In fact you'll find my articles to the Annals of Agriculture punctuated with manure. It's the secret of success.
- The Earl of Chatham and William Pitt: My lords, we cannot hope to awaken the people to its peril unless we ourselves are alive to it. The time for half measures and half-hearted complacency is past. From now on we must realise we are fighting a nation of armed fanatics, led by a arch-fanatic. We must work together with a single mind and a single purpose. We must put aside all personal affairs, renounce leisure, family even sleep to this one imperative duty. I warn you - Bonaparte will not count the cost. He'll climb over a million corpses to attain his ambition. We must break him or he will break us. That is all gentlemen.
- George the Third: Pressure? Nonsense! I merely let it be known that I could no longer consider any man my friend who votes against my wishes.
- Mrs. Carr: He's got to have some time to himself, working like a dog in Downing Street, trying to put right what our generals have done wrong. He's entitled to an hour or two with his girl, isn't he?
- The Earl of Chatham and William Pitt: We are held in contempt throughout Europe. Our ships can scarce control the Channel. We are considered a third-rate power. The country is bankrupt.
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