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
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.
Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.
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
I am the last President of the United States!
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 Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.
Whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.
The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
It wasn't a cake walk in Basra but it's going to be a lot, lot more dangerous up there.
What is right and what is practicable are two different things.
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there