Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

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

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

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.

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

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