James Beck: “Institutions purely democratic will sooner or later destroy liberty or civilization, or both....”

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

It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.

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.