Josiah Quincy: “Nothing conveys to my mind the idea of eternity so forcibly as the grand spectacle of the heavens in a clear night.”

They have transmitted that freedom to you; and upon you now devolves the duty of transmitting it unimpaired to your posterity.

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…

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