Adlai Stevenson: “Take him all in all, we may not look upon his like again.”

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

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

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…

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.