The few authentic cases of this sort of thing were, as every impartial person must recognize, engineered by a few patriotic but foolish hotheads; the more sober and responsible German elements in the United States were certainly no party to them.
"My Three Years in America"
Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff
Fantastic suggestions of Jesuit attempts to distract the Anglican Church have also been made,-attempts sufficiently refuted by the improbability of the persons known to be concerned lending themselves to such an intrigue, for, hotheads as Penry and the rest were, they were transparently honest.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
"hotheads," Flannery told the walls thoughtfully, "make the best men obtainable, once they're tamed.
"Victory"
Lester del Rey