Well, there doesn't seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by a close and careful and perfect organization and a great deal of [from audience: "soap," in reference to purchased votes, the word being followed by laughter]. I see reporters here, and therefore I will simply say that everybody showed a great deal of interest in the occasion, and distributed tracts and political documents all through the country.

As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.

The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.

Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.