It is in very truth a government of the people, in an important sense a government standing separate and apart; its foundations the morality, the intelligence, the patriotism of the people.
Adlai Stevenson
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American politician (1835–1914); Vice President of the United States from 1893 to 1897
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Never forget that citizenship in such a government carries with it tremendous responsibility, a responsibility that we cannot evade.
— Adlai Stevenson
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It is high privilege and high honor to be a citizen of this grand republic.
Illinois, in all that constitutes true grandeur in a people, knows no superior among the great sisterhood of States.
As one standing, alas, 'upon the western slope,' let me adjure the young men of this magnificent county--my home for more than half a century--to study thoroughly the history of our own State, and of the grand republic of which it is a…
Our eyes behold to-day the marvellous results of the far-seeing statesmanship in which it was conceived.
The value of the great Ordinance to millions who have since found homes within the limits of the vast area embraced within its provision cannot be overstated.
America's obligation to France is enduring--for explorers in the seventeenth century no less than for defenders in that which immediately followed.
The great navigator in his lonely search for a new pathway to the Indies was buoyed by a courage, a yearning for discovery, scarce greater than that which in the heart of the new continent sustained the later voyagers and discoverers…
Inseparably linked with that portion of its history are names that will live with those of the Cabots and Columbus.
Bearing in mind that 'that which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before,' significant events of the past must be known, to the end that we intelligently comprehend the present, and are enabled, even in scant measure, to…
We make progress in proportion as we wisely ponder significant events.