Adlai Stevenson: “Courts of justice, and the law as a distinctive calling, are the necessary outgrowths of civilization.”

Unless curbed it will sap the foundation of civilized society.

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.

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.

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