Being asked by one of them whether it would not be advisable to expose the conduct and motives of rival statesmen, in the newspapers, he answered explicitly in the negative, saying: "The execution of my duties is the only answer I can give to censure.
Quincy emphasizes the importance of fulfilling one's duties in response to criticism.
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This error has nowhere been more frequently repeated, nowhere been of more pernicious tendency, than in America itself.
The tongue of falsehood can never be silenced.
But circumstances will do more than any negotiation.
The terms, indeed, in which such a character as Washington has repeatedly expressed himself concerning me, have left me nothing to wish, if they did not alarm me by their very strength.
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