President John Tyler's Dependence on God

_"For the first time in our history the person elected to the Vice-Presidency … has had devolved upon him the Presidential office … My earnest prayer shall be constantly addressed to the all-wise and all-powerful Being who made me, and by whose dispensation I am called to the high office of President … confiding in the protecting care of an everwatchful and overruling Providence, it shall be my first and highest duty to preserve unimpaired the free institutions under which we live and transit them to those who shall succeed me in their full force and vigor."

John Tyler, address given upon assuming the presidency after the death of William Henry Harrison, April 9, 1841