When I observed a strong man approaching I generally took advantage of him by being a little quicker than he was and seizing him by the tip of the fingers, giving him a hearty shake, and thus preventing him from getting a full grip upon me.

If a man . . . would shake and not be shaken, grip and not be gripped, taking care always to squeeze the hand of his adversary as hard as it squeezed him, then he suffered no inconvenience from it.

I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.

The Presidency is not a bed of roses.

I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.