Individual Liberty Is Individual Power.

I Appear, My Fellow-citizens, In Your Presence And In That Of Heaven To Bind Myself By The Solemnities Of Religious Obligation To The Faithful Performance Of The Duties Allotted To Me In The Station To Which I Have Been Called.

The Inconsistency Of The Institution Of Domestic Slavery With The Principles Of The Declaration Of Independence Was Seen And Lamented . . . No Insincerity Or Hypocrisy Can Be Fairly Laid To Their Charge. Never From Their Lips Was Heard One Syllable Of Attempt To Justify The Institution Of Slavery. They Universally Considered It As A Reproach Fastened Upon Them By The Unnatural Step-mother Country And They Saw That Before The Principles Of The Declaration Of Independence Slavery, In Common With Every Other Mode Of Oppression, Was Destined Sooner Or Later To Be Banished From The Earth.

Not Stones, Nor Wood, Nor The Art Of Artisans Make A State; But Where Men Are Who Know How To Take Care Of Themselves, These Are Cities And Walls.

Those Who Take Oaths To Politically Powerful Secret Societies Cannot Be Depended On For Loyalty To A Democratic Republic.

The Four Most Miserable Years Of My Life Were My Four Years In The Presidency.