Adlai Stevenson: “The suggestion of a lawyer as to the existence of a fact was accepted as verity by the court.”

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!

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.

The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it and say it is safe.

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