A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

I didn't do anything wrong and I promise to never do it again.

Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.