Adlai Stevenson: “There is no evil that we cannot either face or fly from but the consciousness of duty disregarded.”

What page in our history tells of deeds so fraught with blessings to the generations of men as the discovery of America?

Great evils often result from hasty legislation, rarely from the delay which follows full discussion and deliberation.

In the advocacy, however, of what he believed to be for the public weal, 'he took counsel ever of his courage, never of his fears.' That he possessed the ability to have acquitted himself with honor in responsible positions of public…

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