Adlai Stevenson: “Not infrequently the public welfare is imperilled by too much, rather than too little, legislation.”

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

As one standing, alas, 'upon the western slope,' let me adjure the young men of this magnificent county--my home for more than half a century--to study thoroughly the history of our own State, and of the grand republic of which it is a…

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

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