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If that is to be the avowed opinion of this committee, in God's name let my constituents know it!
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Quincy demands transparency from the committee regarding their stance on the war with Mexico.
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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.
But, if we go to war, what must be the effect of the peace that follows?
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.
The seeds of this complicated machine were all sown in the Declaration of Independence; and their fruits can never be eradicated but by the dissolution of the Union.
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