Adlai Stevenson: “My only ambition was to acquit myself properly, and to advance the best interests of the country.”

And yet history will truly say of him that, while just to other Governments, no President has more firmly maintained the rights of his own.

Not to speak of that eye which pierces through all disguises and beholds everything as in the splendor of noon, such secrets of guilt are never safe from detection even by men.

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.

I believe that Congress possesses Constitutional power to abolish it.