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