Adlai Stevenson: “A single instance, as indicated, might prove the forerunner of untold evils.”

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.

Unless curbed it will sap the foundation of civilized society.

Irishmen, in common with liberty-loving men everywhere, looked with abhorrence upon the attempt of a great European power to establish monarchy upon the ruins of republics.

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.