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We degrade and disgrace our constituents and the country.
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Josiah Quincy expresses concern about the degradation of public trust and the reputation of constituents and the nation.
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I have no doubt our citizens will rally a second time round the standard of Common Sense.
No man can be surprised that such a cause was swept away by a moral and political whirlwind; that it carried with it all the institutions of civil society, so that its march was a wild desolation.
With a tolerable share of common sense, I hope, in America, to be independent and free.
The seeds of this complicated machine were all sown in the Declaration of Independence; and their fruits can never be eradicated but by the dissolution of the Union.
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