If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

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

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

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

I like the noise of democracy.

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

I have gone wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any of them.