On the subject of personal interviews with the President, he thus expressed himself: "I have never denied access to me as President to any one, of any color; and, in my opinion of the duties of that office, it never ought to be denied.
Quincy defends the accessibility of the President to all citizens, regardless of their background.
Share
More from Josiah Quincy
If we were bound to do it, we were bound to do it avowedly and above-board.
Rather than live otherwise, I would wish to die before my time.
This error has nowhere been more frequently repeated, nowhere been of more pernicious tendency, than in America itself.
The tongue of falsehood can never be silenced.
Other voices in this conversation
