Adlai Stevenson: “The election of a man to the Presidency in conformity with the Constitution of the United States would not justify an…”

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.

In my humble judgment, the historic Senate, preserving the unrestricted right of amendment and of debate, maintaining intact the time-honored parliamentary methods and amenities which unfailingly secure action after deliberation, possesses…

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.

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.