Albert Beveridge: “To men who think as you and I do, the present is gloomy enough; and the future presents no cheering prospect.”

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.

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

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 Spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.