Adlai Stevenson: “This coming together is no idle ceremony, no unmeaning observance.”

Politics, the prime cause of fortune's favors to them in the beginning, proved their undoing in the end.

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.

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…