Adlai Stevenson: “The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more of life's parade shall meet That brave and…”

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.

I believe that Congress possesses Constitutional power to abolish it.

We strive in vain to look beyond the heights.

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.