Adlai Stevenson

The worst effect of this decision will be its lesson to the young men of our country.

Hereafter old-fashioned honesty is at a discount, and villainy and fraud the legalized instruments of success.

The fact may be conceded, the proof overwhelming, that the honest voice of a State has been overthrown by outrage and fraud, and yet the chosen tribunal of the people has entered of solemn record that there is no remedy.

The people of Oregon cast a majority of their votes for Hayes, and no vote or act of mine shall stand in the way of its being so recorded.

Such have been my convictions from the beginning, and the great wrong done in Louisiana and Florida cannot warp my convictions at this hour.

But who can estimate, what seer can foretell, the evils that may result to us and our children from this judgment?

Fortunate, indeed, will it be for this country if our people lose not faith in popular institutions; fortunate, indeed, if they abate not their confidence in the integrity of that high tribunal, for a century the bulwark of our liberties.

In all times of popular commotion and peril, the Supreme Court of the United States has been looked to as the final arbiter, its decrees heeded as the voice of God.

His principle in action seemed ever to be, "there is nothing so kingly as kindness.

To him every cloud had a silver lining,--the lining generally concealing the cloud.

And this is law, that I'll maintain Until my dying day, sir, That whatsoever King shall reign, Still I'll be vicar of Bray, sir.

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