Adlai Stevenson: “America's obligation to France is enduring--for explorers in the seventeenth century no less than for defenders in that…”

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

Inseparably linked with that portion of its history are names that will live with those of the Cabots and Columbus.

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…

As one standing, alas, 'upon the western slope,' let me adjure the young men of this magnificent county--my home for more than half a century--to study thoroughly the history of our own State, and of the grand republic of which it is a…