Adlai Stevenson: “Hence, insulting language, and the use of billingsgate, were too hazardous to be indulged where a personal accounting…”

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.

Irishmen, in common with liberty-loving men everywhere, looked with abhorrence upon the attempt of a great European power to establish monarchy upon the ruins of republics.

Politics, the prime cause of fortune's favors to them in the beginning, proved their undoing in the end.

I have no respect for candidates who attempt to dodge any of these great questions.