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.

I like the noise of democracy.

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

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

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

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