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.

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

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

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

I am the last President of the United States!

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

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

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

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.

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

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

To speak of happiness is to create happiness.

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero

[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

JACE WAYLAND," she said. "Explain yourself." Jace was glaring at the cat. "I told you to bring me to Alec! Backstabing Judas." Church rolled onto his back, purring contentedly.

The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

I'm kind of ADD in that sense where if I start liking something, I'll just learn it to the absolute max.

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.

THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.