Adlai Stevenson: “What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.”

Great evils often result from hasty legislation, rarely from the delay which follows full discussion and deliberation.

I have no respect for candidates who attempt to dodge any of these great questions.

We strive in vain to look beyond the heights.

In the advocacy, however, of what he believed to be for the public weal, 'he took counsel ever of his courage, never of his fears.' That he possessed the ability to have acquitted himself with honor in responsible positions of public…