Albert Beveridge: “Have they altogether lost the memory of Washington's farewell address?...”

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

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…

On this, the only vital and enduring question involved, Marshall's views were clear and unshakable.

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.