We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it. – John F. Kennedy, 1961

Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned. – Chauncey M. Depew

He is one of those giant figures, of whom there are very few in history, who lose their nationality in death. – David Lloyd George

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country. – James Buchanan to Abraham Lincoln, 1861