I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.

Labor is the true standard of value.

The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.

With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.