Adlai Stevenson: “Is it too much to say of this man that among the world's benefactors a greater than he hath not appeared?”

Politics, the prime cause of fortune's favors to them in the beginning, proved their undoing in the end.

And yet history will truly say of him that, while just to other Governments, no President has more firmly maintained the rights of his own.

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.

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