Adlai Stevenson: “It was the supreme moment, and upon the action of the historic assemblage depended events of far-reaching consequence.”

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.

The practical lesson to be drawn, one for all the ages, is the peril involved in a wife's untimely interruption of the wise observations and sage reflections of her husband.

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.

In the rush of events, party antagonisms, in the main, soon fade from remembrance.