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

The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

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

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

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

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

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.