I like the noise of democracy.

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the momentous question whether you possess the power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union

Whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.