Adlai Stevenson: “They were the advance guard--The builders--and faithfully and well they served their race and time.”

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

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

I have no respect for candidates who attempt to dodge any of these great questions.

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.