Adlai Stevenson: “In imagination he is once more under the ancestral roof; the vine-clad cottage is again a thing of reality.”

Looking back through the long vista of years, it is my honest belief that such singing as his, at home or abroad, I have never heard.

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

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.

If Franklin, Wilson, Sherman, King, Randolph, Rutledge, Mason, Pinckney, Hamilton, Madison, and their associates had rendered no public service other than as builders of the Constitution, that alone would entitle them to the measureless…