Adlai Stevenson: “And what a splendid commentary this upon our free institutions,--upon the sublime underlying principle of popular…”

What page in our history tells of deeds so fraught with blessings to the generations of men as the discovery of America?

Politics, the prime cause of fortune's favors to them in the beginning, proved their undoing in the end.

Irishmen, in common with liberty-loving men everywhere, looked with abhorrence upon the attempt of a great European power to establish monarchy upon the ruins of republics.

Breckenridge, he said: "Bob, when you and I graduated, you took to the pulpit and I to the bottle, and I have stuck to my text a good deal closer than you have to yours!