All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.

It is confidently believed that our system may be safely extended to the utmost bounds of our territorial limits.

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.

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.

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

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