Adlai Stevenson: “The rule of the mob has at times usurped that of the law.”

The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it and say it is safe.

We are here to erect this statue to his memory because of the unnumbered blessings to America and to the people of every race and clime which have followed his discovery.

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.

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