Adlai Stevenson: “Here the invalid needs no physician, and the laborer rests from unrequited toil.”

Great evils often result from hasty legislation, rarely from the delay which follows full discussion and deliberation.

My fellow-citizens have a right to know my views upon all public questions, and I have nothing to conceal.

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.

The practical lesson to be drawn, one for all the ages, is the peril involved in a wife's untimely interruption of the wise observations and sage reflections of her husband.