Adlai Stevenson: “By indefatigable investigation, and by world-wide publication of the results, mankind has indeed become, as was…”

My fellow-citizens have a right to know my views upon all public questions, and I have nothing to conceal.

Not to speak of that eye which pierces through all disguises and beholds everything as in the splendor of noon, such secrets of guilt are never safe from detection even by men.

Judgment and prudence should be mixed in equal parts with love and affection in the transaction, to secure a lasting and happy union.

We are here to erect this statue to his memory because of the unnumbered blessings to America and to the people of every race and clime which have followed his discovery.