Adlai Stevenson: “How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!”

Is it too much to say of this man that among the world's benefactors a greater than he hath not appeared?

Irishmen, in common with liberty-loving men everywhere, looked with abhorrence upon the attempt of a great European power to establish monarchy upon the ruins of republics.

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 spirit of the mob is in deadly antagonism to all constituted authority.