Adlai Stevenson: “However it may have been in the past, the United States emerges from the conflict with Spain a united people.”

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil.

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.

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

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