Adlai Stevenson: “To a degree that cannot be measured by words, the temple of justice will prove the city of refuge.”

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!

Politics, the prime cause of fortune's favors to them in the beginning, proved their undoing in the end.

My countrymen, the little settlement planted just three centuries ago near the spot upon which we have to-day assembled has under divine guidance grown into a mighty nation.

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.