I told him that I was much obliged to him but that I relied entirely on my conduct itself for its justification and that I felt no sort of apprehension for consequences, as they regarded me personally; that in public life considerations of that sort never had and never would in any degree influence me.
Beveridge emphasizes the importance of personal integrity and conduct in public life, regardless of external pressures.
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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.
Thus provincialism in the form of States' Rights was given a fresh impulse and a new vitality.
History, reason, evidence, march through these pages like infantry, cavalry, and artillery going to battle.
Indeed, he thought them only "an experiment on the American mind to see how far it will bear an avowed violation of the constitution.
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