Adlai Stevenson: “The wrongs of time are redressed, and injustice is expiated.”

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

In the presence of such majestic power we can only stand awed and silent.

This coming together is no idle ceremony, no unmeaning observance.

And yet history will truly say of him that, while just to other Governments, no President has more firmly maintained the rights of his own.