Josiah Quincy: “I can justify the refusal to adopt this policy only by the steadiness and consistency of my adhesion to my own.”

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.

But, if we go to war, what must be the effect of the peace that follows?

This rendered it more unavoidable that the remainder of the continent should ultimately be ours.

If there is a Bostonian who ever sailed from his own harbor for distant lands, or returned to it from them, without feelings, at the sight of the Blue Hills, which he is unable to express, his heart is differently constituted from mine.