Albert Beveridge

There are men who will hold power by any means rather than not hold it; and who would prefer a dissolution of the union to a continuance of an administration not of their own party.

They will risk all ills ... rather than permit that happiness which is dispensed by other hands than their own.

Tell Marshall I love him, because he felt and acted as a republican, as an American.

We are not incorruptible; on the contrary, corruption is making sensible tho' silent progress.

Wicked and outrageous as were some of these prosecutions, they were not so extravagant as the horrors which Republican politicians declared that the Sedition Laws would bring to every fireside.

It was the wisest and most unpopular act of Adams's troubled Administration.

In short, a declaration of war with France would do everything which the Federalists wished and hoped for.

Government will be weakened by the friends it loses and betrayed by those it will gain.

II.) If stated in the vernacular of the present day, this doleful opinion of Marshall would read: "Nothing, I believe, more debases or pollutes the human mind than partisan politics.

Undue mercy to villains, is cruelty to all the good & virtuous.

I have seen such men often become excellent legislators after experience has cured their errors.

The Hero, the Sage, and the Patriot of America--the man on whom in times of danger every eye was turned and all hopes were placed--lives now only in his own great actions, and in the hearts of an affectionate and afflicted people.

Having effected the great object for which he was placed at the head of our armies, we have seen him converting the sword into the plough-share, and voluntarily sinking the soldier in the citizen.

Having been twice unanimously chosen the Chief Magistrate of a free people, we see him, at a time when his re-election with the universal suffrage could not have been doubted, affording to the world a rare instance of moderation, by…

However the public confidence may change, and the public affections fluctuate with respect to others, yet with respect to him they have in war and in peace, in public and in private life, been as steady as his own firm mind, and as…

Marshall's part in this encounter reveals his military bent of mind, the influence of his army experience, and his readiness in controversy, no less than his unemotional sanity and his disdain of popular favor if it could be secured only…

But no pressure of party regularity could influence Marshall against his convictions, no crack of the party whip could frighten him.

He abhorred the doctrine of State Sovereignty which Jefferson now was making the rallying-point of the Republican Party; he believed, quite as fervently as had Washington himself, that the principle of Nationality alone could save the…

This great address not only ended the Republican attack upon the Administration, but settled American law as to Executive power in carrying out extradition treaties.

They go far who assert that Marshall's address is a greater performance than any of the speeches of Webster, Clay, Sumner, or other American orators of the first class; and yet so perfect is this speech that the commendation is not extreme.

Yes; for "the jurisdiction of a nation extends to the whole of its territory, and to its own citizens in every part of the world....

American law and American courts could not deal with such a condition, insisted Marshall, but British law and courts could and the treaty bound America to deliver the criminal into British hands.

He must, then, execute a treaty, where he, and he alone, possesses the means of executing it.

It is one of the few speeches ever delivered in Congress that actually changed votes from one party to the other in a straight-out party fight.

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