Adlai Stevenson: “Here beneath humble roofs, their children were born and reared, and here from hearts that knew no guile ascended the…”

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.

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.

Judgment and prudence should be mixed in equal parts with love and affection in the transaction, to secure a lasting and happy union.

What page in our history tells of deeds so fraught with blessings to the generations of men as the discovery of America?