Adlai Stevenson: “In no part of their matchless handiwork has it been more clearly manifested than in the creation of a responsible…”

Is it too much to say of this man that among the world's benefactors a greater than he hath not appeared?

In the advocacy, however, of what he believed to be for the public weal, 'he took counsel ever of his courage, never of his fears.' That he possessed the ability to have acquitted himself with honor in responsible positions of public…

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

From the establishment of the Government the question of human slavery was the one perilous question,--the one constant menace to national unity, until its final extinction amid the flames of war.