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

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.

If a man . . . would shake and not be shaken, grip and not be gripped, taking care always to squeeze the hand of his adversary as hard as it squeezed him, then he suffered no inconvenience from it.

I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.

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.