The opening of I. THE PERIOD OF AMERICANIZATION
Great Britain is fighting our battles and the battles of mankind, and France is combating for the power to enslave and plunder us and all the world. (Fisher Ames.)
Though every one of these Bugbears is an empty Phantom, yet the
People seem to believe every article of this bombastical Creed.
Who shall touch these blind eyes. (John Adams.)The object of England, long obvious, is to claim the ocean as her domain. (Jefferson.)
I am for resistance by the sword. (Henry Clay.)
Into the life of John Marshall war was strangely woven. His birth, his young manhood, his public services before he became Chief Justice, were coincident with, and affected by, war. It seemed to be the decree of Fate that his career should march side by side with armed conflict, and that the final phase of that career should open with a war--a war, too, which brought forth a National consciousness among the people and demonstrated a National strength hitherto unsuspected in their fundamental law.