Adlai Stevenson: “This institution--until its final extinction amid the flames of war--cast its ominous shadow over our nation's pathway…”

My countrymen, the little settlement planted just three centuries ago near the spot upon which we have to-day assembled has under divine guidance grown into a mighty nation.

And yet history will truly say of him that, while just to other Governments, no President has more firmly maintained the rights of his own.

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

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.