Adlai Stevenson: “In the highest sense of the expression, he was a gentleman of the old school.”

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…

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

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…