Josiah Quincy: “He replied: "I am highly obliged to my friends for their good opinion; but this mode of electioneering is suited neither…”

They have transmitted that freedom to you; and upon you now devolves the duty of transmitting it unimpaired to your posterity.

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.

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

The charge, therefore, that our government did really give up that important territory, when it was at its option to retain it, is purely and unqualifiedly untrue; and I now charge that it was known by Mr.