Adlai Stevenson: “In religion What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text.”

To this man, more than to any other, are we indebted for the supreme fact that ninety millions of people are at this hour, in the loftiest sense of the expression, fellow-citizens of a common country.

The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it and say it is safe.

I have no respect for candidates who attempt to dodge any of these great questions.

We, the heirs of all the ages, in the plenitude of our enjoyments, and the prodigality of the favors showered upon us, hail Columbus our benefactor.