Adlai Stevenson: “It is from such as these, that the world's great men have sprung.”

As one standing, alas, 'upon the western slope,' let me adjure the young men of this magnificent county--my home for more than half a century--to study thoroughly the history of our own State, and of the grand republic of which it is a…

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…

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