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What is right and what is practicable are two different things.

— James Buchanan Presidential Leadership : Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House (2004)

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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delegated to Congress the power to coerce a State into submission which is attempting to withdraw or has actually withdrawn from the Confederacy?

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