Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey!

Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey!

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

My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.

May the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

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

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