Adlai Stevenson: “Treaties are the law of the land, and their observance in spirit as well as letter touches the national honor.”

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

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…

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.

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