Adlai Stevenson: “Politics, the prime cause of fortune's favors to them in the beginning, proved their undoing in the end.”

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

We, the heirs of all the ages, in the plenitude of our enjoyments, and the prodigality of the favors showered upon us, hail Columbus our benefactor.

In the presence of this wondrous fulfillment of predicted greatness, prophecy looks out upon the future and stands dumb.

Unless curbed it will sap the foundation of civilized society.