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 ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
I have gone wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any of them.
Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.
There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.
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.