Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between Church and State, and that in my action as President of the United States I recognized no distinction of creeds in my appointments office.

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the bonds of peace and union this great and increasing family of free and independent States, will be the chart by which I shall be directed.

The Presidency is not a bed of roses.

We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.

I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between Church and State, and that in my action as President of the United States I recognized no distinction of creeds in my appointments office.