James Beck: “The Constitution did not intend that public officials should rise or fall with the fleeting caprices of a constituency.”

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.

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

Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.

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