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

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.

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

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.

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

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