Albert Beveridge: “An American frontier officer, Andrew Jackson, had easily outwitted some of Great Britain's ablest and most experienced…”

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.

History, reason, evidence, march through these pages like infantry, cavalry, and artillery going to battle.

The Constitution's enemies, thus far out-pointed by its perfectly trained and harmonious supporters, could delay no longer.

The nature of men forbids us to conclude that we are in no danger from war.