I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.