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

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!

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

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.

It is better to know so much about a few but important things, than to know so little about life, and much about trivial things.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations.

I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

You can KNOW something yet FAIL to do it!

A good song receives love forever.

I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me.

Grilled salmon and brown pasta works for me every time.

I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.