Adlai Stevenson: “I have no respect for candidates who attempt to dodge any of these great questions.”

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities.

Not to speak of that eye which pierces through all disguises and beholds everything as in the splendor of noon, such secrets of guilt are never safe from detection even by men.

In the presence of this wondrous fulfillment of predicted greatness, prophecy looks out upon the future and stands dumb.

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.