Youth, However, Is A Defect That She

The Filth And Noise Of The Crowded Streets Soon Destroy The Elasticity Of Health Which Belongs To The Country Boy.

Disunion And Civil War Are At Hand; And Yet I Fear Disunion And War Less Than Compromise. We Can Recover From Them. The Free States Alone, If We Must Go On Alone, Will Make A Glorious Nation.

So Far As Laws And Institutions Avail, Men Should Have Equality Of Opportunity For Happiness; That Is, Of Education, Wealth, Power. These Make Happiness Secure. An Equal Diffusion Of Happiness So Far As Laws And Institutions Avail.

Nobody Ever Left The Presidency With Less Regret, Less Disappointment, Fewer Heart Burnings, Or Any General Content With The Result Of His Term (in His Own Heart, I Mean) Than I Do. Full Of Difficulty And Trouble At First, I Now Find Myself On Smooth Waters And Under Bright Skies.

Let Me Assure My Countrymen Of The Southern States That It Is My Earnest Desire To Regard And Promote Their Truest Interest - The Interests Of The White And Of The Colored People Both And Equally And To Put Forth My Best Efforts In Behalf Of A Civil Policy Which Will Forever Wipe Out In Our Political Affairs The Color Line And The Distinction Between North And South, To The End That We May Have Not Merely A United North Or A United South, But A United Country.