I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

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

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.

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.

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

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