Adlai Stevenson: “Each had set his life upon a cast, and was ready to stand the hazard of the die.”

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.

Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible and, by attempting, prove that one with God can chase a thousand and two can put ten thousand to flight.

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.

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