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

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.

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.

Why must one love rarely to love well?

Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'

The whole thing about my books and my life is that I create drama's always around me.

I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

As a working mom, I struggle to find time to work out and go for runs. I usually run two to three times a week and work out with a trainer once a week. I try to go for a longer run on Sundays.

When I left the Lampoon, I went west to try that out, and discovered that I hated it.They were awful people turning out awful product .

The lesser of two evils is still evil.