Adlai Stevenson: “Treaties are the law of the land, and their observance in spirit as well as letter touches the national honor.”

The practical lesson to be drawn, one for all the ages, is the peril involved in a wife's untimely interruption of the wise observations and sage reflections of her husband.

Great evils often result from hasty legislation, rarely from the delay which follows full discussion and deliberation.

Looking back through the long vista of years, it is my honest belief that such singing as his, at home or abroad, I have never heard.

Not inaptly has hell been described as "disqualification in the face of opportunity.