Adlai Stevenson: “Unless curbed it will sap the foundation of civilized society.”

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.

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.

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