All that harms labor is treason to America.

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.

Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.