Adlai Stevenson: “Trifles light as air are sometimes the pivots upon which hinge momentous events.”

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 inaptly has hell been described as "disqualification in the face of opportunity.

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 my humble judgment, the historic Senate, preserving the unrestricted right of amendment and of debate, maintaining intact the time-honored parliamentary methods and amenities which unfailingly secure action after deliberation, possesses…