James Beck: “To this we owe the elasticity of the instrument.”

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

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.

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

Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.