Adlai Stevenson: “My religious and moral principles are strongly opposed to duelling, and it would give me pain to be obliged to shed the…”

Judgment and prudence should be mixed in equal parts with love and affection in the transaction, to secure a lasting and happy union.

To this man, more than to any other, are we indebted for the supreme fact that ninety millions of people are at this hour, in the loftiest sense of the expression, fellow-citizens of a common country.

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

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.