Josiah Quincy: “To this disposition justice must sometimes make resistance, and policy must often yield.”

May the Ruler of the universe preserve you from such degradation! 'Freedom!

In what language of composure or of decency can I say to you that there is in this bitter and venomous charge not one single word of truth; that it is from beginning to end grossly, glaringly, wilfully false?--false even in the name of the…

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.

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