Adlai Stevenson: “It was the belief of Jefferson that government should touch the citizen at the fewest possible points.”

Lincoln in public speech uttered the words, 'My fellow-citizens.' Truly the magical words 'fellow-citizens' never fail to touch a responsive chord in the patriotic heart.

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.

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

In the rush of events, party antagonisms, in the main, soon fade from remembrance.