Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

What we won when all of our people united just must not now be lost in suspicion, distrust, selfishness, and politics among any of our people. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.

Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must some time enter; and the summons is more loud and piercing as the event of which it warns us is at less distance. To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; but to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.