I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.

I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever.

Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.

He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.