33 Quotes by James Buchanan

I like the noise of democracy.

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.

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.

Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.

The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the momentous question whether you possess the power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union

I am the last President of the United States!

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

Whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.