It has been well observed that the office of President of the United States should neither be sought nor declined.

Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil.

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

-- Abraham Lincoln

Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.

-- John F. Kennedy

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.

-- Ronald Reagan