Adlai Stevenson: “So extraordinary a constellation of great and distinguished individuals may never again appear in office at the seat of…”

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…

It is high privilege and high honor to be a citizen of this grand republic.

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.