I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish-nothing to serve but my country.

For more than half a century... this Union has stood unshaken. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and maintain it in its integrity to the full extent of the obligations imposed and the powers conferred upon me by the Constitution.

Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy.

I am not a party candidate, and if elected cannot be President of a party, but the President of the whole people.

I regret nothing, but I am sorry that I am about to leave my friends.

The only ground of hope for the continuance of our free institutions is in the proper moral and religious training of the children, that they may be prepared to discharge aright the duties of men and citizens.

In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.