Adlai Stevenson: “Oh, it is excellent To have a giant strength; but 't is tyrannous To use it like a giant.”

His genius and faith gave succeeding generations the opportunity for life and liberty.

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.

I believe that Congress possesses Constitutional power to abolish it.

Irishmen, in common with liberty-loving men everywhere, looked with abhorrence upon the attempt of a great European power to establish monarchy upon the ruins of republics.