Quote #13
Prevent the American people from crossing the Rocky Mountains? You might as well command Niagara not to flow. We must fulfill our destiny.
More from James Buchanan
- I like the noise of democracy.
- The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
- I have no regret for any public act of my life, and history will vindicate my memory.
- The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.
- Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.
- 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.
- There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.