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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."”
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- Source:
- Speech, 1813.
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 58c9573ea435f6d150aaff6d6af77d40d6cd171449116b6908c9c9ae39bf010c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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