Terrible to her neighbors on the continent of Europe, as all must admit France to be, I believe that the United States, if indeed united, if awake to the impending danger, if capable of employing their whole, their undivided force--are so situated as to be able to preserve their independence.
Beveridge asserts that the United States has the potential to preserve its independence if united against threats.
Share
More from Albert Beveridge
Would they abandon their posts as judges, and the interests of millions committed to them, to serve the purposes of a single individual?
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.
Any nation, however, may by statute declare an act to be piratical which is not so by the law of nations; and such an act is punishable only by that particular state and not by other governments.
He has raised the American people in their own esteem, and, if the influence of truth and justice, reason and argument is not lost in Europe, he has raised the consideration of the United States in that quarter of the world....
Other voices in this conversation
