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 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.

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.

if you can't control yourself, you will be controlled by others—choose your master.

True freedom is not about being able to do whatever we feel like doing; rather, it is about being able to do what we truly want to do, in spite of what we feel like doing at the moment.

The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.

Never let the brain idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’ And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s.

Weariness, sometimes more than anything else, can bring an end to war.

First come, first served.

To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.

To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.

Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased.

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.