Adlai Stevenson: “The word of a counsel to his adversary was his inviolable bond.”

America's obligation to France is enduring--for explorers in the seventeenth century no less than for defenders in that which immediately followed.

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

The value of the great Ordinance to millions who have since found homes within the limits of the vast area embraced within its provision cannot be overstated.

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…