33 Quotes by James Buchanan

Building on the public's unwillingness to act on principle in support of market solutions to apparent problems, whether real or imagined, these interest groups secure arbitrary restrictions on voluntary exchanges and, in the process, secure rents for their members while reducing both the liberties and economic well being of other members of the economic nexus, both domestically and internationally.

How would the US be different today if people coming off the boat were greeted with a welfare check instead of a shovel?

People from different traditions, don't realize what they will encounter.

It wasn't a cake walk in Basra but it's going to be a lot, lot more dangerous up there.

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

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

I have gone wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any of them.

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