Albert Beveridge: “The Constitution, the laws and treaties of the United States are prostrate in the State of Georgia.”

The dreams he had dreamed, the visions he had seen back in his Virginia mountains were clad in glories as enchanting as the splendors of their tree-clad summits at break of day--dreams and visions for which strong men should be glad of the…

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

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

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.