James Buchanan Men Quotations

The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

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.

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.

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