Adlai Stevenson: “The incumbent of this great office holds with unchallenged title the most exalted station known to men.”

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.

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

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

America's obligation to France is enduring--for explorers in the seventeenth century no less than for defenders in that which immediately followed.