Albert Beveridge: “Daring, fearless, strong, and resourceful, they struck without the sanction of the law.”

If this goes down, we shall immediately see attempted another act of Congress declaring that the President shall continue in office during life, reserving to another occasion the transfer of the succession to his heirs, and the…

The Constitution of Virginia of 1776 was the basis upon which was built one of the most perfect political machines ever constructed; and this machine in later years came to be Marshall's great antagonist.

The Virginians, on their part, found the giving of new notes a convenient way of canceling old obligations and thus piled up mountains of debt which they found hard to remove.

The Alien and Sedition Laws were, they asserted, the beginning of monarchy, the foundation of absolutism.