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

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 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

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.

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