Albert Beveridge: “O Liberty! thou greatest good! thou fairest property! with thee I wish to live--with thee I wish to die!”

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.

History, reason, evidence, march through these pages like infantry, cavalry, and artillery going to battle.

When he promotes his own, he promotes that of the community.

The war in which the several potentates of Europe were engaged against France, although in almost every instance declared by that power, was pronounced to be a war for the extirpation of human liberty, and for the banishment of free…