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 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.

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.

All people should learn to say as well and "No" as an answer not only "Yes". One moment you will fill your whole life with the stuff which you are accepted.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

It's a lot harder to play football when you haven't got the ball.

I was born with no money. So when people talk about Bow Wow being rich his whole life, I don't know where they get that.

A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.

We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.

In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.