Josiah Quincy: “Adams had talents, integrity, fidelity to his country, and devotion to the fulfilment of official duty, in which he had…”

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

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.

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…