Adlai Stevenson: “It was the belief of Jefferson that government should touch the citizen at the fewest possible points.”

The practical lesson to be drawn, one for all the ages, is the peril involved in a wife's untimely interruption of the wise observations and sage reflections of her husband.

Great evils often result from hasty legislation, rarely from the delay which follows full discussion and deliberation.

My countrymen, the little settlement planted just three centuries ago near the spot upon which we have to-day assembled has under divine guidance grown into a mighty nation.

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.