Albert Beveridge

It silenced opposition and settled then and forever the points of international law on which the controversy hinged....

The denunciations of the Executive, which had hitherto been harsh and clamorous everywhere throughout the land, sunk away at once into cold and cautious whispers only of disapprobation.

The Republican leaders found their own members declaring themselves convinced by Marshall's demonstration and announcing their intentions of voting with the Administration.

Why be precipitate? asked Marshall; by the opening of the next campaign in Europe we should have more information.

Suppose a gentleman had risen on the floor of Congress, to compare our revenues with our expenses--what would have been the result of the calculation?" It would have shown that we could not afford to strike for our independence!

If vast exertions were then made to acquire independence, will not the same exertions be now made to maintain it?

It should never be forgotten that true economy did not content itself with inquiring into the mere saving of the present moment; it should take an enlarged view of the subject, and determine, on correct calculations, whether the…

While America was humbly supplicating for peace, and that her complaints might be heard, France spurned her contemptuously and refused to enter on a discussion of differences, unless that discussion was preceded by a substantial surrender…

In such a state of things we dare not be totally unmindful of ourselves or totally neglectful of that military position to which, in spite of the prudence and pacific disposition of our government, we may be driven for the preservation of…

Altho' we ought never to make a loan if it be avoidable, yet when forc'd to it much real consolation is to be deriv'd from the future resources of America.

He is a man of a very affectionate disposition, of great simplicity of manners and honest & honorable in all his conduct.

He has a strong attachment to popularity but indisposed to sacrifice to it his integrity; hence it is that he is disposed on all popular subjects to feel the public pulse and hence results indecision and an expression of doubt.

The latter is of all things the most destructive of personal independence & of that weight of character which a great man ought to possess.

The construction put upon the Treaty by the British Commissioners ... will never be submitted to by this country....

Let the two Governments agree to an explanation, instead of leaving the matter to wrangling commissioners.

He had to meet and if possible modify the offensive, determined, and wholly unjust British position by a statement of principles based on fundamental right; and by an assertion of America's just place in the world.

These Powers seemed to regard America, not as a sovereign nation, but as a sort of subordinate state, to be used as they saw fit for their plans and purposes.

We still embrace it, if it can be obtained without violating our national honor or our national faith; but we will reject without hesitation all propositions which may compromit the one or the other.

It is therefore of the last importance to neutrals that this principle be maintained unimpaired.

This spirit can only be infused by uniformly discountenancing and punishing those who tarnish alike the seat of justice and the honor of their country, by converting themselves from judges into mere instruments of plunder." And Marshall…

The mere release of the injured, after a long course of service and of suffering, is no compensation for the past and no security for the future....

Britain has no pretext of right to their persons or to their service.

To tear them, then, from our possession is, at the same time, an insult and an injury.

It is an act of violence for which there exists no palliative.

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