Adlai Stevenson: “Hereafter old-fashioned honesty is at a discount, and villainy and fraud the legalized instruments of success.”

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…

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

We, the heirs of all the ages, in the plenitude of our enjoyments, and the prodigality of the favors showered upon us, hail Columbus our benefactor.

To garner up the fruits of successful revolution by ensuring stable government was the task demanding the loftiest statesmanship.