Adlai Stevenson: “And where upon God's footstool can domain more magnificent than this good county be found; one better adapted to the…”

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.

My countrymen, the little settlement planted just three centuries ago near the spot upon which we have to-day assembled has under divine guidance grown into a mighty nation.

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

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