Adlai Stevenson: “To garner up the fruits of successful revolution by ensuring stable government was the task demanding the loftiest…”

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

The spirit of the mob is in deadly antagonism to all constituted authority.

The practical lesson to be drawn, one for all the ages, is the peril involved in a wife's untimely interruption of the wise observations and sage reflections of her husband.

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.