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

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

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

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.

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

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 like the noise of democracy.