Adlai Stevenson: “If we say, 'the darkness shall cover us,' in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.”

Illinois, in all that constitutes true grandeur in a people, knows no superior among the great sisterhood of States.

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…

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

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.