Adlai Stevenson: “The value of farm lands and their products have increased beyond human forecast or dream.”

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities.

This coming together is no idle ceremony, no unmeaning observance.

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.

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.