Adlai Stevenson: “Looking back through the long vista of years, it is my honest belief that such singing as his, at home or abroad, I have…”

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.

Breckenridge, he said: "Bob, when you and I graduated, you took to the pulpit and I to the bottle, and I have stuck to my text a good deal closer than you have to yours!

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

Lincoln in public speech uttered the words, 'My fellow-citizens.' Truly the magical words 'fellow-citizens' never fail to touch a responsive chord in the patriotic heart.