Josiah Quincy: “To pay money for securing it is, in my opinion, incorrect in principle.”

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

Union!' be this the watchword of your camp; and if Ate, hot from hell, will come and cry 'Havoc!' fight--fight and conquer, under the banner of universal freedom.

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

He knew how little a majority of the men of his own time were disposed or qualified to estimate his character with justice.