If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will now admit that both have contributed splendid talents, spotless integrity, ardent patriotism, and disinterested sacrifices to the formation and administration of this Government, and that both have required a liberal indulgence for a portion of human infirmity and error.

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.

We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.

I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to the faithful performance of the duties allotted to me in the station to which I have been called.