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What can it be but to encourage frauds on the revenue of other nations?
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gutenberg.orgJosiah Quincy: “What can it be but to encourage frauds on the revenue of other nations?”
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Quincy warns that such principles will likely lead to increased fraud against other nations' revenues.
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Adams replied: "I have no hesitation to say I hold that act unconstitutional and void.
Though conscious, being then in his seventy-eighth year, that he stood on the threshold of human life, he sought no relaxation from duty, no exemption from its performance.
His spirit of liberty was fostered and inspired by the writings of Milton, Sydney, and Locke, of which the American Declaration of Independence was an emanation, and the constitution of the United States, with the exception of the clauses…
They have transmitted that freedom to you; and upon you now devolves the duty of transmitting it unimpaired to your posterity.
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