Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all" the principle that clears the path for all-gives hope to all-and, by consequence, enterprize [sic], and industry to all.

You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.