My opinions shall on all occasions be stated to them with perfect frankness.

If they approve that conduct, if they concur in those opinions, they ought, not for my sake, but for their own, to choose me as their member.

To be so chosen, I should indeed consider as a high and enviable honour; but I should think it no honour to be returned to Parliament by persons who, thinking me destitute of the requisite qualifications, had yet been wrought upon by cajolery and importunity to poll for me in despite of their better judgment.
"I wish to add a few words touching a question which has lately been much canvassed; I mean the question of pledges.

In this letter, and in every letter which I have written to my friends at Leeds, I have plainly declared my opinions.

But I think it, at this conjuncture, my duty to declare that I will give no pledges.