Top 49 Quotes About James Buchanan
#1. My favorite forgotten President in American history is James Buchanan, who in defending really robust and sharp-elbowed debates said, "I like the noise of democracy. I like the sound of people in the streets making noise."
Jeff Sharlet
#2. All the figures who upheld and defended American slavery - Senators John C. Calhoun and Stephen Douglas, President James Buchanan, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, architect of the Dred Scott decision, and the main leaders of the Confederacy - were Democrats.
Dinesh D'Souza
#3. James Buchanan's niece: "He often worked just for work's sake.
Bruce Chadwick
#4. Because," I tried to tame that whole whirlwind into a sentence, "when you smiled at me right then, I saw something."
I'd seen more than just something, I'd seen a possibility of everything.
James Buchanan
#5. I kissed him for a long, long while. My hands wrapped on either side of his face pinned him and wouldn't let him pull away. I didn't want Kabe to ever pull away from me. Let the mountains fall and the stars burn out, I'd never let him go.
James Buchanan
#6. There is a big difference between wishing you was doing something and the actual getting it done. And this wasn't no back room in a bar or glory hole where I didn't even have to look at who I was with. This was Kabe.
James Buchanan
#7. 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.
James Buchanan
#9. The only thing I ever did wrong was what I did right...
loving someone like Kabe.
James Buchanan
#10. How would the US be different today if people coming off the boat were greeted with a welfare check instead of a shovel?
James Buchanan
#11. That's the Devil talking in you , Joe. To his way of thinking that's likely what was happening.
"No,"I let go my grip. No need to crush my own hard head when it was someone else's that deserved it.
"It's Joe talking.
James Buchanan
#12. You come to me three, four months ago, knowing it, and I might have said you're right. God meant me to not love anyone. Be a rock. Don't be touched by no one. But now I've been touched, in here." I tapped my chest. "There is no fear in love, but love casteth out fear.
James Buchanan
#13. There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.
James Buchanan
#14. I have gone wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any of them.
James Buchanan
#15. I knew-exactly-the moment I fell for him. "When we're up on the mountain getting ready to go down for that woman's body, you remember, you smiled at me." It was like the sun hat touched the earth and been born in his body. "That's when I think I really lost my reason.
James Buchanan
#16. Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.
James Buchanan
#17. It ain't nothing but you and the heavens and they're so big and so bright that you realize just how little some things matter. And then sometimes, you realize how much little things matter.
James Buchanan
#18. We don't love a God who puts people in a position where they never can love.
James Buchanan
#19. To the new president, Abraham Lincoln: Sir, if on attaining the presidency you are as happy as I am upon leaving it, then, sir, you are a happy man indeed.
James Buchanan
#20. Suck me off in the car on the way over and you call me horny?" Nate growled again. "Get out of those fucking jeans!
James Buchanan
#21. The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.
James Buchanan
#22. I know you, you believe that God tests people and you have to have faith that things are going according to His plan.."
"God is not in my bedroom." That was just nine kinds of wrong.
James Buchanan
#23. One of the most exciting intellectual moments of my career was my 1948 discovery of Knut Wicksell's unknown and untranslated dissertation, 'Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen,' buried in the dusty stacks of Chicago's old Harper Library.
James M. Buchanan
#24. You scratch my back, I scratch yours."
The smile faded into a leer.
"No, you suck my dick, I'll suck yours.
James Buchanan
#25. The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
James Buchanan
#26. Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.
James Buchanan
#27. Suck my balls, rim me like a pro, then stick your prick up my ass, and you got a problem with the word 'fuck'? Man, you got issues.
James Buchanan
#28. Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.
James Buchanan
#29. You know," Kabe tugged his shirt off and tossed it on the floor. "The whole innocent thing is kinda cute."
Shirt halfway up my middle, I stopped.
"I'm nothing like cute." My glare told him I'd hurt him if kept it up.
"Me and cute don't add up.
James Buchanan
#30. Know what the best thing about morning sex is?" Caesar snorted and pinched Nate's hip.
"Sex?"
"No," Nate laughed, "nobody has to sleep on the wet spot.
James Buchanan
#31. For a moment my heart stopped beating. "It's not the fall you know." His breath was all warm on my cheek. "It's that sudden stop at the end that does it." Just before I kissed him, I whispered, "I hope it doesn't hurt much.
James Buchanan
#33. You can just take your prejudice and shove it where the sun don't shine."
One of the hardest things I've ever said. Took every ounce of will in my body to get it passed my teeth.
James Buchanan
#34. To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
James Buchanan
#35. 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.
James Buchanan
#36. The eighteenth century discovery that, in an institutional framework that facilitates voluntary exchanges among individuals, this process generates results that might be evaluated positively, produced 'economics,' as an independent academic discipline or science.
James M. Buchanan
#37. 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
James Buchanan
#38. 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
#39. The fact is that our Union rests upon public opinion and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens...If it can not live in the affections of its people, it must die.
James Buchanan
#40. My momma always said bossy was good for a deputy and bad for everything else.
James Buchanan
#41. What is right and what is practicable are two different things.
James Buchanan
#42. I can't believe I can buy a shotgun at the sporting goods counter," he waved back at the entrance, "but the safe sex shit is like hidden in this little corner."
"Welcome to Utah.
James Buchanan
#43. In 1987, the United States celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of the constitutional convention that provided the basic rules for the American political order. This convention was one of the very few historical examples in which political rules were deliberately chosen.
James M. Buchanan
#44. Whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.
James Buchanan
#45. I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.
James Buchanan
#46. I couldn't move. Never been hit by anything that powerful.
Overwhelmed.
Lost.
Falling.
My chest heaved. I shook. I pulled Kabe hard against me, turned my face into his chest. My eyes burned, my chest seized and I bawled like a baby.
James Buchanan
#47. Yeah, that's what they claim...we'll accept you so long as you don't go out and get laid. Sucker you into a good ol' feeling of acceptance and then kick you harder and harder in the balls as they try and wean you off of your desires. I believed I could convince a dog to turn into a cat.
James Buchanan
#48. Something just ain't right about thanking the Lord for sending you an opportunistic pretty boy who carried a string of condoms and single use packets of lube in his pocket. Still, I did it.
James Buchanan
#49. The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.
James Buchanan
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