Adlai Stevenson: “Politics, the prime cause of fortune's favors to them in the beginning, proved their undoing in the end.”

We, the heirs of all the ages, in the plenitude of our enjoyments, and the prodigality of the favors showered upon us, hail Columbus our benefactor.

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

Not inaptly has hell been described as "disqualification in the face of opportunity.

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.