Adlai Stevenson: “Peace to their ashes; to their memory all honor!”

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

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.

Bearing in mind that 'that which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before,' significant events of the past must be known, to the end that we intelligently comprehend the present, and are enabled, even in scant measure, to…

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…