Josiah Quincy: “The tongue of falsehood can never be silenced.”

Adams replied: "I have no hesitation to say I hold that act unconstitutional and void.

The argument for the annexation, or reännexation, of Texas is as gross an imposture as ever was palmed upon the credulity of an honest people.

He knew how little a majority of the men of his own time were disposed or qualified to estimate his character with justice.

Union!' be this the watchword of your camp; and if Ate, hot from hell, will come and cry 'Havoc!' fight--fight and conquer, under the banner of universal freedom.