Adlai Stevenson: “Irishmen, in common with liberty-loving men everywhere, looked with abhorrence upon the attempt of a great European…”

Politics, the prime cause of fortune's favors to them in the beginning, proved their undoing in the end.

From the establishment of the Government the question of human slavery was the one perilous question,--the one constant menace to national unity, until its final extinction amid the flames of war.

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.

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities.