The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

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

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

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

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

I am the last President of the United States!

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.