Adlai Stevenson

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

Breckenridge, he said: "Bob, when you and I graduated, you took to the pulpit and I to the bottle, and I have stuck to my text a good deal closer than you have to yours!

Not inaptly has hell been described as "disqualification in the face of opportunity.

No place so fitting for this home-coming could have been selected as this beautiful park, where the springing grass, transparent lake, and magnificent grove--'God's first temple'--seem all to join in welcoming your return.

Here assembled lawyers, orators, statesmen, whose names have been given to the ages.

The annals of the ambitions, the crimes, the miseries, the wrongs, the struggles, the achievements of men in the long past are fraught with lessons of deep import to all succeeding generations.

We make progress in proportion as we wisely ponder significant events.

Bearing in mind that 'that which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before,' significant events of the past must be known, to the end that we intelligently comprehend the present, and are enabled, even in scant measure, to…

The great navigator in his lonely search for a new pathway to the Indies was buoyed by a courage, a yearning for discovery, scarce greater than that which in the heart of the new continent sustained the later voyagers and discoverers…

The value of the great Ordinance to millions who have since found homes within the limits of the vast area embraced within its provision cannot be overstated.

Our eyes behold to-day the marvellous results of the far-seeing statesmanship in which it was conceived.

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