James Beck: “Other nations may not take it so literally, but with our life-long adherence to a written Constitution as a solemn…”

Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.

We must defend the right to work against those who would either destroy or degrade it.

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.

That vision will remain with them as long, and no longer, as there is in their hearts a conscious and willing acquiescence in its wisdom and justice.