Adlai Stevenson: “The Presidency of the United States, in the highest degree, represents the majesty of the law.”

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.

Great evils often result from hasty legislation, rarely from the delay which follows full discussion and deliberation.

In the advocacy, however, of what he believed to be for the public weal, 'he took counsel ever of his courage, never of his fears.' That he possessed the ability to have acquitted himself with honor in responsible positions of public…

Looking back through the long vista of years, it is my honest belief that such singing as his, at home or abroad, I have never heard.