Adlai Stevenson: “There is no safety to society but in an aroused public sentiment that will hold each participant amenable to the law for…”

Irishmen, in common with liberty-loving men everywhere, looked with abhorrence upon the attempt of a great European power to establish monarchy upon the ruins of republics.

I believe that Congress possesses Constitutional power to abolish it.

My countrymen, the little settlement planted just three centuries ago near the spot upon which we have to-day assembled has under divine guidance grown into a mighty nation.

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.