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

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.

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.

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

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

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