Adlai Stevenson

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

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil.

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities.

We strive in vain to look beyond the heights.

And yet history will truly say of him that, while just to other Governments, no President has more firmly maintained the rights of his own.

In the presence of such majestic power we can only stand awed and silent.

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.

The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it and say it is safe.

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.

Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible and, by attempting, prove that one with God can chase a thousand and two can put ten thousand to flight.

Looking back through the long vista of years, it is my honest belief that such singing as his, at home or abroad, I have never heard.

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