Adlai Stevenson

As in the ancient days all roads led to Rome, so in this year of grace, and in this glorious month of June, all roads lead back to the old home; to the hearthstones around which cling the tender memories of childhood, and of loved ones…

The light shineth upon the darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not!

I am profoundly impressed with the solemnity of the situation and the awful responsibility resting upon me.

Not inaptly has hell been described as "disqualification in the face of opportunity.

Breckenridge, he said: "Bob, when you and I graduated, you took to the pulpit and I to the bottle, and I have stuck to my text a good deal closer than you have to yours!

I have no respect for candidates who attempt to dodge any of these great questions.

My fellow-citizens have a right to know my views upon all public questions, and I have nothing to conceal.

What lawyer has not, at some time, in the trial of a case asked just one question too many?

If, however, even fairly well I might garner up and hand down some of the experiences of the generation of lawyers now passing, I would feel that I had, in some humble measure, discharged that obligation that Lord Bacon says, "every man…

The possessor of ability of the highest order, and of splendid attainments as well, he is of all men the best story-teller this country of ours has known.

No better place can be found for studying that most interesting of all subjects, Man, than in our courts of justice.

Let him take who has the power And let him hold who can.