Adlai Stevenson: “The veto power, so potent an instrumentality in the hands of the American President, is to all intents a dead letter in…”

My fellow-citizens have a right to know my views upon all public questions, and I have nothing to conceal.

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…

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.

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.