Adlai Stevenson: “Our faith should be even stronger than the faith of those who lived two thousand years ago, for we see our religion…”

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

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…

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.

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.