I am the last President of the United States!

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.

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

I am the last President of the United States!

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

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

I like the noise of democracy.