James Beck: “The Constitution is to-day, not a ruined Parthenon, but rather as one of those Gothic masterpieces, against which the…”

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.

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.

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

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