Adlai Stevenson: “Whatever lessens respect for its authority bodes evil and only evil to the State.”

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform!

The practical lesson to be drawn, one for all the ages, is the peril involved in a wife's untimely interruption of the wise observations and sage reflections of her husband.

The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it and say it is safe.

We are here to erect this statue to his memory because of the unnumbered blessings to America and to the people of every race and clime which have followed his discovery.