Adlai Stevenson: “Judgment and prudence should be mixed in equal parts with love and affection in the transaction, to secure a lasting and…”

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.

If Franklin, Wilson, Sherman, King, Randolph, Rutledge, Mason, Pinckney, Hamilton, Madison, and their associates had rendered no public service other than as builders of the Constitution, that alone would entitle them to the measureless…

His genius and faith gave succeeding generations the opportunity for life and liberty.

In the presence of such majestic power we can only stand awed and silent.