I confessed that I was only an average Democrat from Illinois; that way out there we were content to be of the rank and file, and of course to follow the splendid leadership and the gallant Democracy of which we had heard so much.
Stevenson humbly identifies himself as an average Democrat while acknowledging the leadership of his party.
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We strive in vain to look beyond the heights.
Breckenridge, he said: "Bob, when you and I graduated, you took to the pulpit and I to the bottle, and I have stuck to my text a good deal closer than you have to yours!
What page in our history tells of deeds so fraught with blessings to the generations of men as the discovery of America?
My fellow-citizens have a right to know my views upon all public questions, and I have nothing to conceal.