Adlai Stevenson: “It is from such as these, that the world's great men have sprung.”

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

Great evils often result from hasty legislation, rarely from the delay which follows full discussion and deliberation.

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.

His genius and faith gave succeeding generations the opportunity for life and liberty.