Albert Beveridge: “The Judicial Department comes home in its effects to every man's fireside: it passes on his property, his reputation…”

There was about him so little of 'the insolence of office,' and so much of the benignity of the man, that his presence always produced ... the most delightful impressions.

No man ever bore public honors with so meek a dignity ...

In the excitement produced by ardent controversy, gentlemen view the same object through such different media that minds, not infrequently receive therefrom precisely opposite impressions.

There can be little doubt that a majority of the people did not favor the Constitution when adopted by the Convention and ratified by the States.