I am always for the man who wishes to work.

My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.

You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.