Adlai Stevenson: “We make progress in proportion as we wisely ponder significant events.”

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 have no respect for candidates who attempt to dodge any of these great questions.

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.

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.