Adlai Stevenson: “To insinuate unprofessional conduct was to impute infamy.”

In the presence of this wondrous fulfillment of predicted greatness, prophecy looks out upon the future and stands dumb.

Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible and, by attempting, prove that one with God can chase a thousand and two can put ten thousand to flight.

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.