Albert Beveridge: “For what are the states talking about disunion, and for what are they going to war among themselves?”

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

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…

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.

Any nation, however, may by statute declare an act to be piratical which is not so by the law of nations; and such an act is punishable only by that particular state and not by other governments.