Politics Quote by James Buchanan

“Time is a great corrective. Political subjects which but a few years ago excited and exasperated the public mind have passed away and are now nearly forgotten.”

James Buchanan

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

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

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I like the noise of democracy.

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The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

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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,…

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Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

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

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I believe it to be a great political and a great moral evil. I thank God, my lot has been cast in a state…

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The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the…

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“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.”

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