Adlai Stevenson: “God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform!”

If Franklin, Wilson, Sherman, King, Randolph, Rutledge, Mason, Pinckney, Hamilton, Madison, and their associates had rendered no public service other than as builders of the Constitution, that alone would entitle them to the measureless…

Breckenridge, he said: "Bob, when you and I graduated, you took to the pulpit and I to the bottle, and I have stuck to my text a good deal closer than you have to yours!

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

This coming together is no idle ceremony, no unmeaning observance.