Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.

Honor is better than honors.

Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

Never change horses in midstream.