Adlai Stevenson: “Great truths dwell a long time with small minorities.”

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

The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it and say it is safe.

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil.

We, the heirs of all the ages, in the plenitude of our enjoyments, and the prodigality of the favors showered upon us, hail Columbus our benefactor.