Josiah Quincy: “It is in truth all perverted sentiment; mistaking labor for slavery, and dominion for freedom.”

Though conscious, being then in his seventy-eighth year, that he stood on the threshold of human life, he sought no relaxation from duty, no exemption from its performance.

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

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

His spirit of liberty was fostered and inspired by the writings of Milton, Sydney, and Locke, of which the American Declaration of Independence was an emanation, and the constitution of the United States, with the exception of the clauses…