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.

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

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

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

Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey!

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

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

The idea that I should become President seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.

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

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 always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.

The front windows as are the watchmen of grief - I've been looking beyond expectation - Beyond myself - and I do not know as I love you - Which one of us is missing.

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

I think you should have a mindset of getting to the playoffs, because once you get in the playoffs, it is kind of a crapshoot.

Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.

Cowards die many times; a brave man dies but once.