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James Buchanan Quotes

 

• I like the noise of democracy.

• Prevent the American people from crossing the Rocky Mountains? You might as well command Niagara not to flow. We must fulfill our destiny.

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

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

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

• The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

• I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.

• 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.

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

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

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

• 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.

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

• Because of his age.

• We spent some time at practice finishing. We tried some new things and setups and the boys went out and applied it. We're still not quite there, but we're getting the opportunities now.

• Greencastle took us out of our game. We passed well vs. Fannett-Metal, but Greencastle played us physical and made their opportunities.

• we must have Cuba; we can't do without Cuba . . .

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

• 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.

• We have a fairly sizable Muslim community, a fairly sizable Jewish community and a large Christian community, but they have remained fairly isolated from each other.

• 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.

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

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

• There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

• Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

 

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