Adlai Stevenson: “America's obligation to France is enduring--for explorers in the seventeenth century no less than for defenders in that…”

It is high privilege and high honor to be a citizen of this grand republic.

Never forget that citizenship in such a government carries with it tremendous responsibility, a responsibility that we cannot evade.

We make progress in proportion as we wisely ponder significant events.

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…