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.

Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

Some day I will be better remembered.

I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.

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.