I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it.

Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.