Adlai Stevenson: “Political opposition can never absolve gentlemen from the necessity of a rigid adherence to the laws of honor and the…”

To garner up the fruits of successful revolution by ensuring stable government was the task demanding the loftiest statesmanship.

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.

Is it too much to say of this man that among the world's benefactors a greater than he hath not appeared?

My countrymen, the little settlement planted just three centuries ago near the spot upon which we have to-day assembled has under divine guidance grown into a mighty nation.