Adlai Stevenson: “He was the inveterate hater of shams of all kinds, and of mere pretenders of every description.”

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.

His genius and faith gave succeeding generations the opportunity for life and liberty.

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.

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