Adlai Stevenson: “In many localities a spirit of lawlessness has asserted itself in its most hideous form.”

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

If Franklin, Wilson, Sherman, King, Randolph, Rutledge, Mason, Pinckney, Hamilton, Madison, and their associates had rendered no public service other than as builders of the Constitution, that alone would entitle them to the measureless…

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

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.