Adlai Stevenson: “I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists.”

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…

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

Never forget that citizenship in such a government carries with it tremendous responsibility, a responsibility that we cannot evade.

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