Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

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 am the last President of the United States!

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

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

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

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