James Beck: “That spirit of self-restraint is the essence of the American Constitution.”

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

That vision still remains as an ideal with the American people and still leads them to ever-higher achievements, for in all the mad changes of a frenzied hour, they have not yet lost faith in or love for the Constitution of the Fathers!

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

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