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You have lost a child, a dear, dear child. I have lost the only earthly object of my affection.... I have now one request to make,... deny me not. Afford me the melancholy pleasure of seeing her body before internment.
— James Buchanan
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James Buchanan
politician, diplomat, lawyer, statesperson
1791 – 1868
James Buchanan Jr. was the 15th president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861. He also served as the secretary of state from 1845 to 1849 and represented Pennsylvania in both houses of the U.S. Congress. Buchanan was an advocate for states' rights, particularly regarding slavery, and minimized the role of the federal government preceding the American Civil War.
All Quotes by James Buchanan
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I shall not again be a candidate for the Presidency...I shall be 65 on the 23rd April next, and I had determined upon my line of life from the remnant of days with which a kind Providence might bless me, discarding every idea of the Presidency...I can now leave public life, I trust, with credit. Should I become President, the case may be very different, after I shall have worn myself out with the toil and anxiety of the office.
— James Buchanan
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I am the last President of the United States!
— James Buchanan
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Sir, if you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.
— James Buchanan
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Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.
— James Buchanan
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What is right and what is practicable are two different things.
— James Buchanan
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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.
— James Buchanan