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

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

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.

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.

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

We work to discover and release the potential of the earth around us.

I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

This is our festival and on this day we are all Indians. We celebrate the festival by maintaining the spirit of brotherhood.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.

I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.

The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.

A tipping point is invisible, as we just saw in Greece. In most situations, everything appears fine until it's not fine, until, for example, no one shows up at a Treasury auction.

The main problem in the Christian life is that we have not thought out the deep implications of the gospel, we have not 'used' the gospel in and on all parts of our life.