Josiah Quincy: “There must be, some time, a conflict on this very question between slave and free representation.”

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.

May the Ruler of the universe preserve you from such degradation! 'Freedom!

In what language of composure or of decency can I say to you that there is in this bitter and venomous charge not one single word of truth; that it is from beginning to end grossly, glaringly, wilfully false?--false even in the name of the…

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