Albert Beveridge: “The government of the Union is emphatically and truly a government of the people.”

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

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.

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.

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