John Marshall Quotes

“Edmund felt despair eating away at his victory. "Why is the world like this?" He shivered. "Why does it feel so cold, so hard?"
A smile flickered on John’s face, one that was neither happy nor sad. "What would be the worth of goodness, in a world that always rewarded it?”
― Matthew Jobin, The Nethergrim

“I am N!ai. When the white people first came, I was already a young woman with breasts. Before the white people came, we did what our hearts wanted. We lived in different places, far apart, and when our hearts wanted to travel, we travelled. We were not poor; we had everything we could carry. No one told us what to do.
Now the white people tell us to stay in this place. There are too many people. There’s no food to gather. Game is far away, and people are dying of tuberculosis.
But when I was a little girl, we left sickness behind us when we moved.”
― N!ai

“John Marshall on writing: The man who by seeking embellishment hazards confusion, is greatly mistaken in what constitutes good writing. The meaning ought never to be mistaken. Indeed, the reader should never be obliged to search for it.”
― Jean Edward Smith, John Marshall: Definer of a Nation

“Mr. Henry had without a doubt the greatest power to persuade, [but] Mr. Madison had the great power to convince.”
― Joseph J. Ellis, The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 by Joseph J. Ellis