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"There never was a good war or a bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin / Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept. 11, 1773.
Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept. 11, 1773.
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"Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a "halter" intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men."
Josiah Quincy, Jr / Observations on the Boston Port Bill, 1774.
Observations on the Boston Port Bill, 1774.
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"If this bill [for the admission of Orleans Territory as a State] passes, it is my deliberate opinion that it is virtually a dissolution of the Union; that it will free the States from their moral obligation; and, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation,--amicably if they can, violently if they must."
Josiah Quincy / Abridged Cong. Debates, Jan. 14, 1811. Vol. iv. p. 327.
Abridged Cong. Debates, Jan. 14, 1811. Vol. iv. p. 327.
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"The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.""
Henry Clay / Speech, 1813.
Speech, 1813.
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