Adlai Stevenson: “If a person would subdue his ambition for office and remain a private citizen, he would be a more happy man.”

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.

Judgment and prudence should be mixed in equal parts with love and affection in the transaction, to secure a lasting and happy union.

We strive in vain to look beyond the heights.

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.