James Beck: “Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.”

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.

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

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