The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

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.

Guys who kiss girls on the forehead are the sweetest and the best gentlemen you can ever have.

We do not create our destiny

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

If you walk out of the house and think you feel great, or if someone tells you that you look amazing, believe it and just say thank you.

But its not funny. Not to people who've been told they're losers their whole lives and believe they will never be anything else.

The big problem is to find suitable hats. I don't care for them all that much, but you have to wear them in politics.

Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted to give up, to leave school and to live on the streets.

It's traumatizing for me to come to Washington during a Republican administration because I don't have any Republican clothes.

If you like Battlestar Galactica...you're probably a huge nerd.

I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.