Adlai Stevenson: “This coming together is no idle ceremony, no unmeaning observance.”

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

From the establishment of the Government the question of human slavery was the one perilous question,--the one constant menace to national unity, until its final extinction amid the flames of war.

We are here to erect this statue to his memory because of the unnumbered blessings to America and to the people of every race and clime which have followed his discovery.

The love of liberty is deeply ingrained into the very life of the Irishman.