By no means do I believe a person should be sordid and selfish in all his actions, yet cannot a person be more useful to the public if he possesses talents in other situations than in office?
Stevenson suggests that individuals can serve the public effectively outside of political office.
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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.
We make progress in proportion as we wisely ponder significant events.
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.