Adlai Stevenson

It is our glory to-day, and will be that of countless on-coming generations, that the men of '87 were equal to the stupendous emergency.

The success of the Connecticut plan made possible that of other essential compromises which followed; and the result was, as the sublime consummation of wise deliberation and patriotic concession, the establishment of the Government of the…

Nevada with a population of less than forty thousand has her equal voice with New York with a population exceeding seven million.

Not infrequently the public welfare is imperilled by too much, rather than too little, legislation.

It was the belief of Jefferson that government should touch the citizen at the fewest possible points.

How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!

The rights of the minority are at times but as the dust in the balance.

The veto power, so potent an instrumentality in the hands of the American President, is to all intents a dead letter in the mythical British Constitution.

In the light of what has been suggested, the wisdom displayed in the establishment of the bicameral, or two-chamber system, in our legislative scheme, is strikingly apparent.

The pendulum of history swings in centuries," and a single term of the great office weighed little in view of the perils that surely awaited a failure to secure peaceful adjustment.

Unquestionably the least satisfactory of the devices of our Federal Constitution is that for the election of President and Vice-President through the instrumentality of colleges of electors chosen by the several States.

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