Adlai Stevenson: “I tell you, my friends, it is impossible under our institutions to force slavery on an unwilling people.”

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

It is in very truth a government of the people, in an important sense a government standing separate and apart; its foundations the morality, the intelligence, the patriotism of the people.

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.

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