Dreaming is an act of pure imagination attesting in all men a creative power which if it were available in waking would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

Hope is the struggle of the soul breaking loose from what is perishable and attesting her eternity.

Helplessness induces hopelessness and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher Miss Julia Coleman used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

I actually was class clown but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.

There is not to be found in all history any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men of such unquestioned good sense education and learning as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.