Adlai Stevenson: “He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.”

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…

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

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

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…