Adlai Stevenson: “What lawyer has not, at some time, in the trial of a case asked just one question too many?”

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.

Great evils often result from hasty legislation, rarely from the delay which follows full discussion and deliberation.

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.

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.