Adlai Stevenson: “It typifies what is most sacred to our race: stability in government and protection to liberty and life.”

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.

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities.

Lincoln in public speech uttered the words, 'My fellow-citizens.' Truly the magical words 'fellow-citizens' never fail to touch a responsive chord in the patriotic heart.

To garner up the fruits of successful revolution by ensuring stable government was the task demanding the loftiest statesmanship.