Albert Beveridge

If ever there was a period for rejoicing this is the moment--every heart, in unison with the freedom and happiness of the people ought to beat high with exultation, that the name of Washington from this day ceases to give a currency to…

A new æra is now opening upon us, an æra which promises much to the people; for public measures must now stand upon their own merits, and nefarious projects can no longer be supported by a name.

Thus does circumstance mould opinion and career far more than abstract thinking; and emotion quite as much as reason shape systems of government.

Marshall's ability to extract from the confusion of the most involved question its vital elements and to state those elements in simple terms was helpful to the court, and frankly appreciated by the judges.

But inadequate as the report is, it still reveals the peculiar clearness and the compact and simple reasoning which made up the whole of Marshall's method, whether in legal arguments, political speeches, diplomatic letters, or judicial…

Marshall argued that the Virginia law barred the recovery of the debts regardless of the treaty.

Avoid as you would the gates of death, the reputation for floridity....

I do not consider one shilling sterling as one fourth the real value of the lands....

On this occasion I may say without vanity that I have formerly and not infrequently, given ample testimony of my attachment to Republican Government, to the peace, liberty and happiness of my country and that it is not now to be supposed…

It evinces a disposition to separate the people of the United States from the government, to persuade them that they have different affections, principles and interests from those of their fellow citizens whom they themselves have chosen…

Technically, they were right; practically, they were wrong.

Adams's action was sound as well as noble statesmanship.

Thus, they willingly relinquish national independence for individual safety.

What a lesson to those who wou'd admit foreign influence into the United States!

The thunderbolt has at length been launch'd at the heads of the leading members of the legislature & has, it is greatly to be fear'd, involv'd in one common ruin with them, the constitution & liberties of their country....

The same day the liberty of the press was abolish'd by a line, property taken away by another & personal security destroy'd by a sentence of transportation against men unheard & untried.

Indeed, sir, the constitution has been violated in so many instances that it wou'd require a pamphlet to detail them.

The detail wou'd be unnecessary for the great principle seems to be introduc'd that the government is to be administered according to the will of the nation.

If such a necessity did exist it was created by the disposition of the people at large & it is a truth which requires no demonstration that if a republican form of government cannot be administered by the general will, it cannot be…

They felt that, while they were fighting on the battlefield, they had been betrayed at the ballot box.

The army felt that it had answered with loyal bayonets a conspiracy of treasonable ballots.

Society is divided into two classes; the shearers and the shorn.

They are not only important in consequence of their numbers, but in consequence of their vigor, their activity & that unity of interest which produces a unity of effort among them.

I cou'd wish to form a contrary opinion, but to do so I must shut my eyes on every object which presents itself to them & fabricate in my own mind non-existing things, to be substituted for realities, & to form the basis of my creed.

Our children see this and learn to imitate it....