James Buchanan

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.