Albert Beveridge: “Valley Forge poured upon it a Niagara of starvation, disease, and death.”

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

Thus were the ideas of Nationality and localism in America brought into sharper conflict by the mob and guillotine in France.

The dreams he had dreamed, the visions he had seen back in his Virginia mountains were clad in glories as enchanting as the splendors of their tree-clad summits at break of day--dreams and visions for which strong men should be glad of the…

In the development of John Marshall as well as of his great ultimate antagonist, Thomas Jefferson, during the formative decade which we are now to consider, the influence of the French Revolution must never be forgotten.