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.

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.

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

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.

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.

Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.

I am the last President of the United States!

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

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

I do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but 'I must fight the course.' Tis all that's left to me.

I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.