He is one of those rare personalities whom the whims of time and events have so obscured that they are to be seen but dimly through the mists.
Albert Beveridge
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Albert Jeremiah Beveridge was an American historian and United States senator from Indiana. He was an intellectual leader of the Progressive Era and a biographer of Chief Justice John Marshall and President Abraham Lincoln.
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Throughout the entire debate Henry often sounded his loudest alarms on the supreme power of Congress over the ten miles square where the National Capital was to be located; and, indeed, this seems to have been one of the chief sources of…
The fact that the people at large looked upon the proposed National Government as something foreign, something akin to the British rule which had been overthrown, stares the student in the face wherever he turns among the records of the…
If I shall be in the minority, I shall have those painful sensations which arise from a conviction of being overpowered in a good cause.
Take it at its best, said he: "Even suppose the poor man should be able to obtain judgment in the inferior court, for the greatest injury, what justice can he get on appeal?
The Judiciary provided by the Constitution was, said Marshall "a great improvement on that system from which we are now departing.
This: That National Courts would not be as fair and impartial as State Courts.
To what quarter will you look for protection from an infringement of the Constitution, if you will not give the power to the judiciary?
The work of the National Courts would make the State Courts more efficient because it would relieve them of a mass of business of which they were not able to dispose.
It will be an empire of men, and not of laws.
Nature aided Henry when he closed the day in an appeal such as only the supremely gifted can make.
We have it in our power to secure the happiness of one half of the human race.
They are convinced that further time will answer no end but to serve the cause of those who wish to destroy the Constitution.
No more carefully worded paper for the purposes it was intended to accomplish ever was laid before a deliberative body.
The lengths to which the Constitutionalists were driven in order to secure ratification are measured by the amendments they were forced to bring in.
No one in America better understood how carefully and yet how boldly Nationalism must be advanced if it were to grow stronger or even to survive.
And just as the American Revolution vitally influenced French opinion, so the French Revolution profoundly affected American thought; and, definitely, helped to shape those contending forces in American life that are still waging their…
Liberty will have another feather in her cap....
Everybody agrees that there is an utter prostration of morals; but this general position can never convey to an American mind the degree of depravity....
The virtuous ... stand forward from a background deeply and darkly shaded....
Inconstancy is mingled in the blood, marrow, and very essence of this people....
The great mass of the common people have ... no morals but their interest.
He did not mistake despotism for freedom, because it was sanguinary, because it was exercised by those who denominated themselves the people, or because it assumed the name of liberty.
Of the French declaration of human rights Burke declared: "They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man, in such a pedantic abuse of elementary principles as would have disgraced boys at…
Our children see this and learn to imitate it....
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