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1791–1868 United States
James Buchanan, Jr. (23 April 1791 – 1 June 1868) was the 15th president of the United States (1857–61), 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.
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What is right and what is practicable are two different things.
Presidential Leadership : Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House (2004)
Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.
Presidential Leadership : Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House (2004)
I am the last President of the United States!
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.
I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.
The question fairly stated is, Has the Constitution delegated to Congress the power to coerce a State into submission which is attempting to withdraw or has actually withdrawn from the Confederacy?
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 feel that my duty has been faithfully, though it may be imperfectly, performed, and, whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.
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