Albert Beveridge: “It will be an empire of men, and not of laws.”

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! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.

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