Burns: And yet we shall have to emulate the movement, you will find. We must earnestly hope that it can be done constitutionally. Reform without violence, we may trust, but reform it must be.
Fenton: All our best political thought would agree with you, Mr. Burns.
Burns: Here’s to a free Britain, gentlemen, and a sense of the people’s rights in our legislators.
[They drink.]
Fenton: And with your toast, sir, the name of Mr. Pitt.
Burns: I’ll substitute a greater name, by your leave, sir. I’ll give you George Washington.
Fenton: Isn’t that rather controversial ground, Mr. Burns?
Burns: Then we’ll drink to our own fancy—Pitt or Washington.
[They drink again.]
Burns: And now, gentlemen, let us forget all budgets, state and domestic. Good fellowship heeds no governments.