James Beck: “Let us raise a standard to which the wise and just can repair.”

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.

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

That vision still remains as an ideal with the American people and still leads them to ever-higher achievements, for in all the mad changes of a frenzied hour, they have not yet lost faith in or love for the Constitution of the Fathers!

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