Adlai Stevenson: “To guard against these dangers, they placed their chief hope in the Senate.”

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

In my humble judgment, the historic Senate, preserving the unrestricted right of amendment and of debate, maintaining intact the time-honored parliamentary methods and amenities which unfailingly secure action after deliberation, possesses…

To this man, more than to any other, are we indebted for the supreme fact that ninety millions of people are at this hour, in the loftiest sense of the expression, fellow-citizens of a common country.

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.