5 quotes
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
Buchanan Dying : A Play (1974)
There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
Buchanan Dying : A Play (1974)
Man is an animal, but a social animal.
Buchanan Dying : A Play (1974)
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.
Buchanan Dying : A Play (1974)
Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.
Buchanan Dying : A Play (1974)