Adlai Stevenson: “The question then arises, What rights and privileges are consistent with the public good?”

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

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

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…

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