Adlai Stevenson: “Aspirants to public place presented their claims directly to the people, and the personal popularity of the candidate…”

Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible and, by attempting, prove that one with God can chase a thousand and two can put ten thousand to flight.

To garner up the fruits of successful revolution by ensuring stable government was the task demanding the loftiest statesmanship.

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.

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.