A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.

He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen . . . should share with him. . . . Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

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

I have tried so hard to do the right.

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.

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

What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?