James Beck: “What a constancy, what a magnanimity, what a surprising persistence against fortune!...”

If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.

Without that vision to restrain each succeeding generation of Americans from the tempting excesses of political power, the American Commonwealth, with its great heterogeneous democracy, would probably perish.

The tendency of group morality to standardize man--and thus reduce all men to the dead level of an average mediocrity--is one that the law should combat.

It did not believe that the State was omnipotent or infallible, and yet it proclaimed its authority within wise and just limits.