James Buchanan

I like the noise of democracy.

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.

I'm no editor, no artisan, no expert. And certainly no arbiter of what you should buy, wear, or eat.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.