I have seen without despondency, even for a moment, the hours which America has styled its gloomy ones, but I have beheld no day since the commencement of hostilities that I thought our liberties in such imminent danger as at present.
Beck shares Washington's feelings of alarm regarding the state of American liberties during a tumultuous time.
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In any study of a World Constitution, the example of those who framed the American Constitution can be studied with profit.
I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them.
Man has danced upon the verge of a social abyss, and, as previously suggested, the dancing has, both in form and in accompanying music, lost its former grace and reverted to the primitive forms of crude vulgarity.
It made the judiciary the final conscience of the nation.
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