He has saved time, shortened the hours of toil, accumulated and intensified thought by the rapidity and terseness of electric messages.
Adlai Stevenson: “He has saved time, shortened the hours of toil, accumulated and intensified thought by the rapidity and terseness of…”
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Stevenson highlights the efficiency brought by the telegraph in saving time and enhancing thought.
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Not to speak of that eye which pierces through all disguises and beholds everything as in the splendor of noon, such secrets of guilt are never safe from detection even by men.
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.
My fellow-citizens have a right to know my views upon all public questions, and I have nothing to conceal.
And yet history will truly say of him that, while just to other Governments, no President has more firmly maintained the rights of his own.