Adlai Stevenson: “It is well that to the people was entrusted the sovereign power of choosing their chief magistrate.”

My fellow-citizens have a right to know my views upon all public questions, and I have nothing to conceal.

In the presence of such majestic power we can only stand awed and silent.

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.

If Franklin, Wilson, Sherman, King, Randolph, Rutledge, Mason, Pinckney, Hamilton, Madison, and their associates had rendered no public service other than as builders of the Constitution, that alone would entitle them to the measureless…