I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. Sir Anthony Hopkins portrayal of me was adequate. I do believe that my sideburns were of substantially higher quality, however.

The Constitution had provided that all the public functionaries of the Union...should be under oath or affirmation for its support. The homage of religious faith was thus superadded to all the obligations of temporal law to give it strength.

May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.