Albert Beveridge: “The man does not live who wishes for peace more than I do; but the outrages committed upon us are beyond human bearing.”

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

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.

If this goes down, we shall immediately see attempted another act of Congress declaring that the President shall continue in office during life, reserving to another occasion the transfer of the succession to his heirs, and the…

The Virginians, on their part, found the giving of new notes a convenient way of canceling old obligations and thus piled up mountains of debt which they found hard to remove.