Adlai Stevenson: “The elevation of a citizen to the Presidency of the United States is the deliberate act, under the forms of law, of a…”

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 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.

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

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…