Adlai Stevenson: “These names and something of what they achieved will go down in our annals to the after times.”

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.

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…

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