“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”

“The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.”

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

“I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.”

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”