Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

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

The Presidency is not a bed of roses.

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.

Under the blessings of Divine Providence... It becomes us, in humility, to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.

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

No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.