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.

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

Everyone has to start somewhere. If you let people bring you down now, you’ll never know how high you could climb. And you owe it to yourself to try.

I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.

If someone gave the Russians a football, they'd win the Super Bowl in two years.

Love begins like a triolet and ends like a college yell.

There is enough Christianity in our country's history to make it a significant component of our heritage and identity.

The more he gave away, the more delighted he became.

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.

At least I hate myself as much as I hate anybody else.

The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.