Adlai Stevenson: “The rights of the minority are at times but as the dust in the balance.”

From the establishment of the Government the question of human slavery was the one perilous question,--the one constant menace to national unity, until its final extinction amid the flames of war.

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.

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.

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