Adlai Stevenson: “They gathered from farm, from shop, from mart and hall--to die, if need be, that their country might live.”

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

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…

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

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