Adlai Stevenson: “One of the apprehensions of the framers of the Constitution was that of executive usurpation of functions lawfully…”

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.

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.

In the advocacy, however, of what he believed to be for the public weal, 'he took counsel ever of his courage, never of his fears.' That he possessed the ability to have acquitted himself with honor in responsible positions of public…

In the rush of events, party antagonisms, in the main, soon fade from remembrance.