If things continue like this, the history of our age may one day be written under a caliphate's supervision.
I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.
There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California.
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.
Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.
Under the blessings of Divine Providence. . . It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.
I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.
Grandmas can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realisation that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come.
Jesus Christ, Lord of all things! You see my heart, you know my desires. Possess all that I am - you alone. I am your sheep; make me worthy to overcome the devil.
Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.