I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.

I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.

Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.