I have reached the summit of my ambition.

The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.

Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribed for our motto: 'Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever,' and exclaim, 'Christ first, our country next!'

When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.