Adlai Stevenson

The annals of the ambitions, the crimes, the miseries, the wrongs, the struggles, the achievements of men in the long past are fraught with lessons of deep import to all succeeding generations.

Truly it has been said: 'To-day is the pupil of yesterday,' and also 'History is the great teacher of human nature by means of object-lessons drawn from the whole recorded life of human nature.' There is, then, no dead past.

His name is the common heritage of all people and all times.

Of Lincoln no words can be uttered or withheld that could add to or detract from his imperishable fame.

Here, at a critical period in our history the great masters of debate discussed vital questions of state--questions that took hold of the life of the republic.

Here assembled lawyers, orators, statesmen, whose names have been given to the ages.

They gathered from farm, from shop, from mart and hall--to die, if need be, that their country might live.

No higher tribute need be paid to his memory than to say, his name was worthy of this magnificent domain to which it was given.

It is our glory, that in all that tends to human progress, in all that ministers to human distress, in whatever appeals to and develops what is best in man, or brings contentment and happiness to the home--in a word, in the grand march of…

More than all this, our schoolhouses, universities, churches, and institutions for the relief of the unfortunate and dependent, all bear witness to the glad fact that in our material development the claims of education, of religion, of…

Modern conveniences and appliances have in large measure supplanted the hard labor of human hands, lessened the hours of daily toil, and brought the occupant of the farm into closer touch with the outer world.

The life of the farmer is no longer one of drudgery and isolation.