Quotes by James Buchanan

• The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
• What is right and what is practicable are two different things.
• 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.
• 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 like the noise of democracy.
• The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.