Albert Beveridge: “Never did common honesty, good faith, and fair dealing need such a stabilizing power as at the moment Marshall furnished…”

These had power To charm through life and cheer his dying hour.

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.

There was about him so little of 'the insolence of office,' and so much of the benignity of the man, that his presence always produced ... the most delightful impressions.