Adlai Stevenson: “The strongest has there no supremacy, and the weakest needs no defence.”

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.

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…

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.

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