My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

I am a straightforward man.

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.