I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the le…

When you have sweated, toiled, had mad dreams, hopeless nightmares, you find yourself in London's streets, cold and dank in the night air. Think - what have I …

We declared our intentions to preserve monarchy, and they still are so, unless necessity enforce an alteration. It's granted the king has broken his trust, yet…

The only assurance that I can now give of the future is reference to the past. The course which I have taken in the past in connection with this rebellion must…