Adlai Stevenson

And yet within a few decades the power which they invoked proved mightier than the legions of the emperor, and the faith in which they died was triumphant o'er all that land.

Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible and, by attempting, prove that one with God can chase a thousand and two can put ten thousand to flight.

If every word spoken in behalf of truth has its influence and every deed done for the right weighs in the final account, it is immaterial to the Christian whether his eyes behold victory or whether he dies in the midst of the conflict.

But this Prince of Peace promises not only peace but strength.

If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we will fight them to the uttermost.

If they say bimetallism is good, but that we cannot have it until other nations help us, we reply that, instead of having a gold standard because England has, we will restore bimetallism, and then let England have bimetallism because the…

Our ancestors, when but three millions in number, had the courage to declare their political independence of every other nation; shall we, their descendants, when we have grown to seventy millions, declare that we are less independent than…

Truly it has been said: 'When the times demand the man, the man appears.' The times demanded a great leader--the great leader has appeared!

The mightiest captain succumbs to the invincible adversary who disarms alike the victor and the vanquished.

The strongest has there no supremacy, and the weakest needs no defence.

The unequal distribution of wealth and honor, capacity, pleasure, and opportunity, which makes life so cruel and inexplicable a tragedy, ceases in the realms of Death.

The wrongs of time are redressed, and injustice is expiated.