Adlai Stevenson: “The mantle of Peace is over our entire land, and prosperity within our borders.”

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.

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

It is in very truth a government of the people, in an important sense a government standing separate and apart; its foundations the morality, the intelligence, the patriotism of the people.

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