Albert Beveridge: “God forbid! we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion....”

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

She was able to maintain her independence & must deserve to lose it if she permitted it to be wrested from her.

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.

Through nearly all the important legislation and diplomacy of those stirring and interpretative years ran, with ever increasing clearness, the dividing line of Nationalism as against localism.