Adlai Stevenson: “In the highest sense of the expression, he was a gentleman of the old school.”

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

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

Judgment and prudence should be mixed in equal parts with love and affection in the transaction, to secure a lasting and happy union.

If Franklin, Wilson, Sherman, King, Randolph, Rutledge, Mason, Pinckney, Hamilton, Madison, and their associates had rendered no public service other than as builders of the Constitution, that alone would entitle them to the measureless…