I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.

Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be blessed with a proud name, one that parents will employ for generations to instill the values of honesty, independence, and above all, courage in their sons.

The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.

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

I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.

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.

I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.