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If I cannot hope to give satisfaction to my country, I am at least determined to have the approbation of my own reflections.
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Quincy expresses his commitment to personal integrity and self-reflection, regardless of public opinion.
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If we were bound to do it, we were bound to do it avowedly and above-board.
But the first principles of morals and politics, which have long been settled, acquire the authority of self-evident truths, which, when first discussed, may have been vehemently and portentously contested.
This rendered it more unavoidable that the remainder of the continent should ultimately be ours.
If its operation should turn out more advantageous to them, it will be more honorable for us; and I never can object to entering formally into an obligation to do that which, upon every virtuous principle, ought to be done without it.
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