James Buchanan



The kind Providence which inspired our fathers with wisdom to frame the most perfect form of government and union ever devised by man will not suffer it to perish until it shall have been peacefully instrumental by its example in the extension of civil and religious liberty throughout the world.

James Buchanan

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.

James Buchanan



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

James Buchanan




What is right and what is practicable are two different things.