Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

Don't confuse comfort with happiness.

If you keep chasing your dreams, one day you'll catch them.

Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.

Listen to everyone, follow no one.

Don't run with your legs, run with your heart.

Even if you're inches away from the finish, never take success for granted.

The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

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

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.

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

Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.

I like the noise of democracy.

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

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.