Adlai Stevenson: “The value of farm lands and their products have increased beyond human forecast or dream.”

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…

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

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…

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