Quotes from James Buchanan

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.

But be this as it may, it is the imperative and indispensable duty of the Government of the United States to secure to every resident inhabitant the free and independent expression of his opinion by his vote.

Public virtue is the vital spirit of republics, and history proves that when this has decayed and the love of money has usurped its place, although the forms of free government may remain for a season, the substance has departed forever.

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.

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

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