" It is disgraceful to our educational institutions and to the political intelligence of Americans, that in discussion of the notorious "Moscow trials," not one comment indicated any knowledge of the American constitutional safeguard against trials of that type, and of the base of that safeguard on individual private property; nor even of the collectivist political theory which admitted the Russian procedure until the example of the United States shamed them into desuetude. "

― Isabel Paterson , God of the Machine