Adlai Stevenson: “What a splendid contribution Ireland has made to the world's galaxy of great men!”

It is high privilege and high honor to be a citizen of this grand republic.

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

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…

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…