In calm water every ship has a good captain.

The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of restriction, but they should not tolerate the oppression of individuals of a special race.

Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

And let us not trust to human effort alone, but humbly acknowledging the power and goodness of Almighty God, who presides over the destiny of nations, and who has at all times been revealed in our country's history, let us invoke His aid and His blessings upon our labors.

Men and times change-but principles-never.

Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.