Albert Beveridge: “The gods invite us to glory and fortune; it remains to be seen whether we deserve the boon.”

The Constitution's enemies, thus far out-pointed by its perfectly trained and harmonious supporters, could delay no longer.

The existing American system was a very masterpiece of weakness.

The Constitution of Virginia of 1776 was the basis upon which was built one of the most perfect political machines ever constructed; and this machine in later years came to be Marshall's great antagonist.

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.