Albert Beveridge: “But again Patrick Henry became the voice of America.”

The Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser said that "no man has lived or died in this country, save its father George Washington alone, who united such a warmth of affection for his person, with so deep and unaffected a respect for his…

To Marshall reared--the great, the good, the wise; Born for all ages, honored in all skies; His was the fame to mortals rarely given, Begun on earth, but fixed in aim on heaven.

There can be little doubt that a majority of the people did not favor the Constitution when adopted by the Convention and ratified by the States.

No man ever bore public honors with so meek a dignity ...