Adlai Stevenson: “But who can estimate, what seer can foretell, the evils that may result to us and our children from this judgment?”

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.

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

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

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