33 Quotes by James Buchanan

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.

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.

For a moment my heart stopped beating. “It’s not the fall you know.” His breath was all warm on my cheek. “It’s that sudden stop at the end that does it.” Just before I kissed him, I whispered, “I hope it doesn’t hurt much.

My momma always said bossy was good for a deputy and bad for everything else.

It ain’t nothing but you and the heavens and they’re so big and so bright that you realize just how little some things matter. And then sometimes, you realize how much little things matter.

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