I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.

They fell upon an ungenial climate, where there were nine months of winter and three months of cold weather, and that called out the best energies of the men, …

I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the …