On the record
Where is the man who ever served in a legislative capacity in your councils whose character could stand a test like this?
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Quincy challenges the integrity of legislative representatives and their accountability.
Share
More from Josiah Quincy
This error has nowhere been more frequently repeated, nowhere been of more pernicious tendency, than in America itself.
Adams replied: "I well know this; but labor I shall not refuse so long as my hands, my eyes, and my brain, do not desert me.
Can you wonder that they shrink from the light of free discussion--that they skulk from the grasp of freedom and of truth?
As a treaty of commerce it will be indeed of little use to us, and we shall never obtain anything more favorable so long as the principles of the navigation act are obstinately adhered to by Great Britain.
Other voices in this conversation
