A few wise and noble spirits, true Faithfuls and Great Hearts, led a despondent people out of the Slough of Despond till their feet were again on firm ground and their faces turned towards the Delectable Mountains of peace, justice, and…

The American Constitution has been the classic model for the federated State.

They nobly conceived that human society was a single unit and that it was governed by a law that was both antecedent and paramount to the law of Rome.

The spirit of man had a new birth and was breaking away from the too rigid bonds of ancient custom and authority.

They differed, at times heatedly, but always as gentlemen of candour and honour.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and just can repair.

Again the words of Washington suggest themselves: "If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work?

It speaks well for the honour of the delegates that although their differences became so acute as to lead at times to bitter expressions, neither side divulged them to the outside public.

And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?

Pennsylvania and New York, with nearly one-sixth of the entire population of the United States, have only four votes in ninety-six votes in the Senate.

I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them.

For having lived long I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

To this we owe the elasticity of the instrument.

It made the judiciary the final conscience of the nation.

I believe America's fate is only deferred by physical causes.

The great evil of the world to-day is this aversion to work.

Man has danced upon the verge of a social abyss, and, as previously suggested, the dancing has, both in form and in accompanying music, lost its former grace and reverted to the primitive forms of crude vulgarity.

Assuredly, the man of to-day, with the rich heritage of countless ages, can do no less.

But all three spring from one root; all three are carried out by men of like political ideals; all three are destined to promote the cause of ordered liberty throughout the world.

Beck lectures on this subject to us, our interest and our sympathy are redoubled by the thought that whatever differences there may be between the Old World and the New, citizens of the United States and ourselves are the Sons of a Common…

Plato records a saying of Socrates that the dog is a true philosopher because philosophy is love of knowledge, and a dog, while growling at strangers, always welcomes the friends that he knows.

James Beck profoundly influenced the judgment of the neutral world and vindicated, by his masterly and sympathetic argument, the justice of our cause.

This experience has convinced me that now, more than ever before, there is in England a deep interest in American institutions and their history.

The consequence is that again and again we are running the risk of perpetrating the most grotesque errors of judgment, of committing the most serious political blunders, in defiance of American public opinion.