Without Precedent Quotes

“Despite all this, Gerry was later elected the first Republican governor of Massachusetts and then vice president under James Madison. His lasting contribution to American politics was the invention of drawing election districts to favor incumbent politicians—a practice still called gerrymandering.”
― Joel Richard Paul, Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times

“Procrastination is a failing in a tradesman, but it is often a virtue in a statesman.”
― Joel Richard Paul, Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times

“As often happens when a nationalist leader is elected to office by vilifying other ethnic groups, a wave of racism swept across the country.”
― Joel Richard Paul, Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times

“CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND-PÉRIGORD was one of the most extraordinary and amoral men in an extraordinary and amoral time.”
― Joel Richard Paul, Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times