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

I like the noise of democracy.

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

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.

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

I am the last President of the United States!