The dreams he had dreamed, the visions he had seen back in his Virginia mountains were clad in glories as enchanting as the splendors of their tree-clad summits at break of day--dreams and visions for which strong men should be glad of the…

Heart-breaking and pitiful was the aspect of these soldiers of liberty.

Washington was the soul of the American cause.

Marshall's strange power of personality which, in after years, was so determining an influence on the destiny of the country, together with the combined influence of his father and of the State Treasurer, Jacquelin Ambler, Marshall's…

The Constitution of Virginia of 1776 was the basis upon which was built one of the most perfect political machines ever constructed; and this machine in later years came to be Marshall's great antagonist.

The Virginians, on their part, found the giving of new notes a convenient way of canceling old obligations and thus piled up mountains of debt which they found hard to remove.

The Spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

The existing American system was a very masterpiece of weakness.

It could borrow money, but could not levy taxes or impose duties to pay the debt.

In argument and reasoning he was the equal if not the superior of Madison himself; and his grim personality made the meek one of Madison seem tender in comparison.

The Constitution's enemies, thus far out-pointed by its perfectly trained and harmonious supporters, could delay no longer.

The nature of men forbids us to conclude that we are in no danger from war.

The passions of men stimulate them to avail themselves of the weakness of others.

When he promotes his own, he promotes that of the community.

When we consult the common good, we consult our own." In such considerations were found the greatest security from an improper exercise of power.

Is not liberty secure with us, where the people hold all powers in their own hands, and delegate them cautiously, for short periods, to their servants, who are accountable for the smallest mal-administration?...

So overwhelming was the popular feeling against a strong National Government that, if the Anti-Constitutionalists had concentrated their attack upon this secret purpose of the leading Constitutionalists to make it such by easy stages, it…

Had not mobs been the precursors of our own Revolution?

The war in which the several potentates of Europe were engaged against France, although in almost every instance declared by that power, was pronounced to be a war for the extirpation of human liberty, and for the banishment of free…

As the French storm increased, its winds blew ever stronger over the responsive waters of American opinion.

Thus were the ideas of Nationality and localism in America brought into sharper conflict by the mob and guillotine in France.

Thus provincialism in the form of States' Rights was given a fresh impulse and a new vitality.

Through nearly all the important legislation and diplomacy of those stirring and interpretative years ran, with ever increasing clearness, the dividing line of Nationalism as against localism.

Our children see this and learn to imitate it....