Adlai Stevenson

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform!

Great evils often result from hasty legislation, rarely from the delay which follows full discussion and deliberation.

In my humble judgment, the historic Senate, preserving the unrestricted right of amendment and of debate, maintaining intact the time-honored parliamentary methods and amenities which unfailingly secure action after deliberation, possesses…

If Franklin, Wilson, Sherman, King, Randolph, Rutledge, Mason, Pinckney, Hamilton, Madison, and their associates had rendered no public service other than as builders of the Constitution, that alone would entitle them to the measureless…

This coming together is no idle ceremony, no unmeaning observance.

To this man, more than to any other, are we indebted for the supreme fact that ninety millions of people are at this hour, in the loftiest sense of the expression, fellow-citizens of a common country.

Lincoln in public speech uttered the words, 'My fellow-citizens.' Truly the magical words 'fellow-citizens' never fail to touch a responsive chord in the patriotic heart.

From the establishment of the Government the question of human slavery was the one perilous question,--the one constant menace to national unity, until its final extinction amid the flames of war.

In the rush of events, party antagonisms, in the main, soon fade from remembrance.

I believe that Congress possesses Constitutional power to abolish it.

The spirit of the mob is in deadly antagonism to all constituted authority.