Albert Beveridge: “It had revealed to this purely American generation a consciousness of its own strength; it could exult in the fact that…”

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.

But an act universally recognized as criminal, such as robbery, murder, and the like, "is an offense against the community of nations.

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.

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