Adlai Stevenson: “It need hardly be said that all this is in total disregard of individual rights, and utterly subversive of all lawful…”

In the presence of such majestic power we can only stand awed and silent.

We are here to erect this statue to his memory because of the unnumbered blessings to America and to the people of every race and clime which have followed his discovery.

Is it too much to say of this man that among the world's benefactors a greater than he hath not appeared?

The spirit of the mob is in deadly antagonism to all constituted authority.