Adlai Stevenson: “In no part of their matchless handiwork has it been more clearly manifested than in the creation of a responsible…”

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

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

Bearing in mind that 'that which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before,' significant events of the past must be known, to the end that we intelligently comprehend the present, and are enabled, even in scant measure, to…

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