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

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

The Presidency is not a bed of roses.

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

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

Although in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a part only, but of the whole people of the United States.