Adlai Stevenson: “Looking back through the long vista of years, it is my honest belief that such singing as his, at home or abroad, I have…”

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.

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…

His genius and faith gave succeeding generations the opportunity for life and liberty.

Judgment and prudence should be mixed in equal parts with love and affection in the transaction, to secure a lasting and happy union.