I feel an humble confidence that the kind Providence which inspired our fathers with wisdom to frame the most perfect form of government and union ever devised by man will not suffer it to perish until it shall have been… — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
“My momma always said bossy was good for a deputy and bad for everything else.” — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
“Fuck, he couldn’t. But Brandon knew that he’d never forgive himself if he didn’t do everything in his power. Even if it failed, he… — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
“I couldn't move. Never been hit by anything that powerful. Overwhelmed. Lost. Falling. My chest heaved. I shook. I pulled Kabe hard against me,… — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion. — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
The Constitution...expressly recognizes the right to hold slaves as property in states where slavery exists. This, then, is not a question of general morality,… — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body. — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world. — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
I believe it to be a great political and a great moral evil. I thank God, my lot has been cast in a state… — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the… — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
“We'd gone at it like jackrabbits the night before...hard and fast. This felt nine kinds of different. Relaxed, familiar, comfortable-scared me to my bones.” — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
