Adlai Stevenson: “And where upon God's footstool can domain more magnificent than this good county be found; one better adapted to the…”

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…

America's obligation to France is enduring--for explorers in the seventeenth century no less than for defenders in that which immediately followed.

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.