Adlai Stevenson: “Here at last is Nature's final decree of equity.”

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

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…

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.