Albert Beveridge: “We hear, incessantly, from the old foes of the Constitution 'this is unconstitutional and that is,' and, indeed, what is…”

Any nation, however, may by statute declare an act to be piratical which is not so by the law of nations; and such an act is punishable only by that particular state and not by other governments.

I do not think the greatest things have been done for the world by its bookmen.

Had not mobs been the precursors of our own Revolution?

The Alien and Sedition Laws were, they asserted, the beginning of monarchy, the foundation of absolutism.