On the record
To secure in the largest measure the great ends of government, responsibility must attach to the executive office; and of necessity, with responsibility, power.
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Adlai Stevenson
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Editor's note · Context
Stevenson argues that executive power must be accompanied by accountability to achieve government goals.
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What page in our history tells of deeds so fraught with blessings to the generations of men as the discovery of America?
Unless curbed it will sap the foundation of civilized society.
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.
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.