Adlai Stevenson: “The life of the farmer is no longer one of drudgery and isolation.”

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.

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…

Our eyes behold to-day the marvellous results of the far-seeing statesmanship in which it was conceived.