Adlai Stevenson: “Oh, it is excellent To have a giant strength; but 't is tyrannous To use it like a giant.”

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.

Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible and, by attempting, prove that one with God can chase a thousand and two can put ten thousand to flight.

In the rush of events, party antagonisms, in the main, soon fade from remembrance.