We are intellectual prostitutes. I pledge allegiance to the flag, and to the Republic for which it stands. If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by example.
Crime is contagious.
When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.