Albert Beveridge: “For everything which they felt to be oppressive, unjust, and antagonistic to liberty, came from the National Government.”

When we consult the common good, we consult our own." In such considerations were found the greatest security from an improper exercise of power.

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.

The Constitution of Virginia of 1776 was the basis upon which was built one of the most perfect political machines ever constructed; and this machine in later years came to be Marshall's great antagonist.

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.