Adlai Stevenson: “We make progress in proportion as we wisely ponder significant events.”

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.

Not inaptly has hell been described as "disqualification in the face of opportunity.

Great evils often result from hasty legislation, rarely from the delay which follows full discussion and deliberation.

In the advocacy, however, of what he believed to be for the public weal, 'he took counsel ever of his courage, never of his fears.' That he possessed the ability to have acquitted himself with honor in responsible positions of public…