Adlai Stevenson: “The obligation of America to Ireland for men who have aided in fighting her battles and framing her laws cannot be…”

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

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…

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…

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