Albert Beveridge: “Our opinions are incompatible with a united government even among ourselves.”

As the French storm increased, its winds blew ever stronger over the responsive waters of American opinion.

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.

The Spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Washington was the soul of the American cause.