Josiah Quincy: “Adams has stood between them, uninfluenced by either, contending for the aggrandizement of the nation.”

The argument for the annexation, or reännexation, of Texas is as gross an imposture as ever was palmed upon the credulity of an honest people.

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

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…

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…