James Beck: “It made the judiciary the final conscience of the nation.”

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.

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

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

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