James Buchanan
James Buchanan
James Buchanan, Jr.was the 15th President of the United States, serving immediately prior to the American Civil War. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives and later the Senate, then served as Minister to Russia under President Andrew Jackson. He was named Secretary of State under President James K. Polk, and is to date the last former Secretary of State to serve as President of the United States. After Buchanan turned down an offer to sit on...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth23 April 1791
CountryUnited States of America
If you arre as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.
It wasn't a cake walk in Basra but it's going to be a lot, lot more dangerous up there.
Greencastle took us out of our game. We passed well vs. Fannett-Metal, but Greencastle played us physical and made their opportunities.
People from different traditions, don't realize what they will encounter.
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.
How would the US be different today if people coming off the boat were greeted with a welfare check instead of a shovel?
Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.
Whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.
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.
The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.
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.
Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.
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