Adlai Stevenson: “I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.”

We make progress in proportion as we wisely ponder significant events.

America's obligation to France is enduring--for explorers in the seventeenth century no less than for defenders in that which immediately followed.

It is in very truth a government of the people, in an important sense a government standing separate and apart; its foundations the morality, the intelligence, the patriotism of the people.

The great navigator in his lonely search for a new pathway to the Indies was buoyed by a courage, a yearning for discovery, scarce greater than that which in the heart of the new continent sustained the later voyagers and discoverers…