Adlai Stevenson

I must acknowledge that I am one of those who do not think so much of the President as some others do.

I may be singular in my ideas, but I believe his administration has neither been firm nor wise.

On fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread.

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil.

Politics, the prime cause of fortune's favors to them in the beginning, proved their undoing in the end.

In religion What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text.

There is no tenet so monstrous but in some breast it will find lodgment.

The history of delusions from the days of Mahomet to the present time illustrates the eagerness with which men are ever ready to seek out new inventions and to discard the old beliefs for the new.

My life has been devoted to promote the public interest of Illinois, and in my latter days it will afford me profound pleasure to advance now, as I have always done in the past, the best interests of the people.

I soon discovered that the bustle and turmoil of political life did not produce happiness.

It would be idle to suppose that the retirement of the Old Ranger from Congress was to terminate his career of usefulness to the people.

So extraordinary a constellation of great and distinguished individuals may never again appear in office at the seat of government.