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

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

Inseparably linked with that portion of its history are names that will live with those of the Cabots and Columbus.

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.

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…