James Beck: “Illiberality, jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for good government of the union.”

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

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.

Under the American Constitution, they are part of the fundamental law, and, as such, enforceable by judges sworn to defend the integrity of the individual as fully as the integrity of the State.

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.