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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.""
Speech, 1813.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people."
Speech at Ashland, Ky., March, 1829.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance."
Speech, 1848.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Sir, I would rather be right than be President."
Speech, 1850 (referring to the Compromise Measures).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain