Adlai Stevenson: “Our eyes behold to-day the marvellous results of the far-seeing statesmanship in which it was conceived.”

In my humble judgment, the historic Senate, preserving the unrestricted right of amendment and of debate, maintaining intact the time-honored parliamentary methods and amenities which unfailingly secure action after deliberation, possesses…

From the establishment of the Government the question of human slavery was the one perilous question,--the one constant menace to national unity, until its final extinction amid the flames of war.

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

The spirit of the mob is in deadly antagonism to all constituted authority.