On the record
It stands for the unified authority and power of seventy-five millions of free men.
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Adlai Stevenson
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gutenberg.orgAdlai Stevenson: “It stands for the unified authority and power of seventy-five millions of free men.”
Editor's note · Context
He highlights the presidency as a symbol of the collective power of American citizens.
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Politics, the prime cause of fortune's favors to them in the beginning, proved their undoing in the end.
In the rush of events, party antagonisms, in the main, soon fade from remembrance.
Unless curbed it will sap the foundation of civilized society.