The Life of John Marshall, Volum 2

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Houghton Mifflin, 1919
 

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Side 45 - Virginian had uttered both Nationalist and Anti-Nationalist sentiments. "I am not of the party of the Federalists," he protested, "but I am much farther from that of the Antifederalists." Indeed, declared Jefferson, "If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
Side 1 - there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than it now is. (Jefferson.) That malignant philosophy which can coolly and deliberately pursue, through oceans of blood, abstract systems for the attainment of some fancied untried good. (Marshall.) The only genuine liberty consists in a mean equally distant from the despotism of
Side 116 - CHAPTER IV WASHINGTON'S DEFENDER His [Marshall's] lax, lounging manners have made him popular. (Jefferson.) Having a high opinion of General Marshall's honor, prudence, and judgment, consult him. (Washington.) The man [Washington] who is the source of all the misfortunes of our country is no longer possessed of the power to multiply evils on the United States. (The Aurora
Side 56 - varying" the salaries of Senators or Representatives "shall take effect until an election of Representatives shall have intervened." (Annals, 1st Cong., 1st Sess., Appendix to ii,
Side 180 - provided, among other things, that " It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no legal impediments to the recovery of the full value in sterling money of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Side 180 - legal impediments to the recovery of the full value in sterling money of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted." The Constitution provided that "All treaties made, or which
Side 11 - the example of a people whose character knows no medium, is, with regard to government, a danger from anarchy; a danger of being led, through an admiration of successful fraud and violence, to an imitation of the excesses of an irrational, unprincipled, proscribing, confiscating, plundering, ferocious, bloody, and tyrannical democracy.
Side 219 - discloses sentiments more alarming than the refusal of a minister [Pinckney], because more dangerous to our independence and union. . . . "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 to manage their
Side 192 - debate, or else in terms so general and so spacious, that the hearer, seeing no consequence which could be drawn from them, was just as willing to admit them as not; but his premises once admitted, the demonstration, however distant, followed as certainly, as cogently, as inevitably, as any demonstration in Euclid.
Side 416 - Now came the public circumstance that made the schism in the Federalist Party an open and remorseless feud. The President's militant declaration, that he would "never send another minister to France without assurances that he will [would] be received, respected, and honored as the represent1 Professor Washington, in his edition of Jefferson's

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