Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

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

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.

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.

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

Whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.