Adlai Stevenson: “Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities.”

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

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

Never forget that citizenship in such a government carries with it tremendous responsibility, a responsibility that we cannot evade.

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…