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

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.

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.

Its not the type of pencil but the artist's skill that matters.

A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot a dog traveling with good men becomes a rational being.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

Nurture is like psychic Wheaties.

I think I'll sleep now.

Relief washed over me like that first air-conditioned breeze on a hot summer day.

The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.

People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

To be in the mind and to be known are the same thing: in this domain esse est percipi.