Adlai Stevenson: “My name shall live in the memory of man when the titles of the Northumberlands and the Percys are extinct and forgotten.”

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.

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.

In the presence of this wondrous fulfillment of predicted greatness, prophecy looks out upon the future and stands dumb.

This coming together is no idle ceremony, no unmeaning observance.