Albert Beveridge: “Britain has no pretext of right to their persons or to their service.”

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

In the development of John Marshall as well as of his great ultimate antagonist, Thomas Jefferson, during the formative decade which we are now to consider, the influence of the French Revolution must never be forgotten.

I do not think the greatest things have been done for the world by its bookmen.

He has raised the American people in their own esteem, and, if the influence of truth and justice, reason and argument is not lost in Europe, he has raised the consideration of the United States in that quarter of the world....