Albert Beveridge: “This court can be insensible neither to the magnitude nor delicacy of this question.”

In the excitement produced by ardent controversy, gentlemen view the same object through such different media that minds, not infrequently receive therefrom precisely opposite impressions.

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.

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