Adams, he deliberately declared to the Legislature of Tennessee his firm conviction that no member of Congress ought to be appointed to any office except a seat on the bench; and he added that he himself would conform to that rule.
Quincy reflects on a principle regarding Congressional appointments during a presidential campaign.
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This rendered it more unavoidable that the remainder of the continent should ultimately be ours.
The terms, indeed, in which such a character as Washington has repeatedly expressed himself concerning me, have left me nothing to wish, if they did not alarm me by their very strength.
That the direct and infallible path to the Presidency is military service, coupled with demagogue policy. 2d.
No man can be surprised that such a cause was swept away by a moral and political whirlwind; that it carried with it all the institutions of civil society, so that its march was a wild desolation.
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