Adlai Stevenson: “In the rush of events, party antagonisms, in the main, soon fade from remembrance.”

Is it too much to say of this man that among the world's benefactors a greater than he hath not appeared?

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.

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

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.