Adlai Stevenson: “There is no evil that we cannot either face or fly from but the consciousness of duty disregarded.”

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…

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.

Illinois, in all that constitutes true grandeur in a people, knows no superior among the great sisterhood of States.

Inseparably linked with that portion of its history are names that will live with those of the Cabots and Columbus.