God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.