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.

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

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

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

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

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

I like the noise of democracy.