Adlai Stevenson: “We strive in vain to look beyond the heights.”

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

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

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

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…