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I am profoundly impressed with the solemnity of the situation and the awful responsibility resting upon me.
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Adlai Stevenson
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gutenberg.orgAdlai Stevenson: “I am profoundly impressed with the solemnity of the situation and the awful responsibility resting upon me.”
Editor's note · Context
Stevenson expresses the weight of responsibility he feels in a serious situation.
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Our eyes behold to-day the marvellous results of the far-seeing statesmanship in which it was conceived.
Inseparably linked with that portion of its history are names that will live with those of the Cabots and Columbus.
It is in very truth a government of the people, in an important sense a government standing separate and apart; its foundations the morality, the intelligence, the patriotism of the people.
Illinois, in all that constitutes true grandeur in a people, knows no superior among the great sisterhood of States.