Albert Beveridge: “Criticism is ever more profitable politics than building.”

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.

She was able to maintain her independence & must deserve to lose it if she permitted it to be wrested from her.

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

In the development of John Marshall as well as of his great ultimate antagonist, Thomas Jefferson, during the formative decade which we are now to consider, the influence of the French Revolution must never be forgotten.