Adlai Stevenson

As an aspirant, he may have been the choice only of a political party; as the incumbent of the great office, he is the representative of all the people--the President of all the people.

It augurs well for the future of the Republic when the American people magnify this office; when the honor, as now, the President who has so ably upheld its dignity, so worthily met its solemn responsibilities, so patriotically discharged…

The Presidency of the United States, in the highest degree, represents the majesty of the law.

It stands for the unified authority and power of seventy-five millions of free men.

It typifies what is most sacred to our race: stability in government and protection to liberty and life.

The President is the great officer to whom the founders of the government entrusted the delicate and responsible function of treating with foreign States; in whom was vested in time of peace and of war, chief command of the army and of the…

Experience has demonstrated the more than human wisdom of the framers of the great federal compact which for more than a century, in peace and amid the stress of war, has held States and people in indissoluble bond of union.

In no part of their matchless handiwork has it been more clearly manifested than in the creation of a responsible executive.

To secure in the largest measure the great ends of government, responsibility must attach to the executive office; and of necessity, with responsibility, power.

And yet, with but few amendments, our great organic law as fully meets the requirements of a self-governing people to-day as when it came from the hands of its framers.

The builders of the Constitution wisely ordained the Presidential office a co-ordinate department of the Government.

The spirit of the mob is in deadly antagonism to all constituted authority.