Adlai Stevenson: “He was the inveterate hater of shams of all kinds, and of mere pretenders of every description.”

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!

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

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

Touched by his magic wand, millions of trees now beautify and adorn this magnificent State.