Albert Beveridge: “All the rights of humanity ... are daily violated with impunity ... universal anarchy prevails....”

Such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince France and the world that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of…

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.

When we consult the common good, we consult our own." In such considerations were found the greatest security from an improper exercise of power.

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