Adlai Stevenson: “I saw Ireland in its beauty and its gloom; in its glory and in its desolation.”

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

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.

We make progress in proportion as we wisely ponder significant events.

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…