My own opinion is that the most benevolent course towards them would be to give them the rights and subject them to the duties of citizens, as a part of our own people.

Adams, being asked to advance money in aid of his own election, replied: "The Presidency of the United States is not an office to be either sought or declined.

To pay money for securing it is, in my opinion, incorrect in principle.

The practices of all parties are tending to render elections altogether venal, and I am not disposed to countenance them.

On the subject of personal interviews with the President, he thus expressed himself: "I have never denied access to me as President to any one, of any color; and, in my opinion of the duties of that office, it never ought to be denied.

After the passions and interests of the present day have passed away, his vote on that occasion will be regarded by posterity as his choicest and purest title to their remembrance.

When suspicions have been kindled into popular delusion, truth, reason, and justice, speak to the ears of adders.

Adams observed: "It is the only part of European democracy which will find no favor in the United States.

This state of things is not to continue forever.

It is possible that the danger of the abolition doctrines, when brought home to Southern statesmen, may teach them the value of the Union, as the only thing which can maintain their system of slavery.

He was above that execrable sophistry of the South Carolina nullifiers, which would make of slavery the corner-stone of the temple of liberty.

He saw the gross inconsistency between the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the fact of negro slavery; and he could not, or would not, prostitute the faculties of his mind to the vindication of that slavery, which, from…

The constitution, the laws, and treaties, of the United States, are prostrate in the State of Georgia.

None; because the State of Georgia is in league with the Executive of the United States, who will not take care that the laws be faithfully executed.

A majority of both houses of Congress sustain this neglect and violation of duty.

The arm refuses its office. 'The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.' This example of the State of Georgia will be imitated by other states, and with regard to other national interests,--perhaps the tariff, more probably the…

As the Executive and Legislature now fail to sustain the Judiciary, it is not improbable cases may arise in which the Judiciary may fail to sustain them.

The Union is in the most imminent danger of dissolution from the old, inherent vice of confederacies, anarchy in the members.

To this end one third of the people is perverted, one third slumbers, and the rest wring their hands, with unavailing lamentations, in the foresight of evils they cannot avert.

Uncontrollable power exists in no government upon earth.

The sternest despotisms, in every region and every age of the world, are and have been under perpetual control; compelled, as Burke expresses it, to truckle and huckster.

Unlimited power belongs not to the nature of man, and rotten will be the foundation of every government leaning upon such a maxim for its support.

Least of all can it be predicated of any government professing to be founded upon an original compact.

The pretence of an absolute, irresistible, despotic power, existing in every government somewhere, is incompatible with the first principle of natural right.

These have been, through life, perpetual admonitions to do nothing unworthy of it.