The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.

All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.