I am the last President of the United States!

I like the noise of democracy.

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

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

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

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

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