Adlai Stevenson: “It is from the deep, granite foundations of society that the materials are gathered to rear a superstructure of massive…”

In the presence of such majestic power we can only stand awed and silent.

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.

In my humble judgment, the historic Senate, preserving the unrestricted right of amendment and of debate, maintaining intact the time-honored parliamentary methods and amenities which unfailingly secure action after deliberation, possesses…

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