James Buchanan actually said...

"The Union is a sacred trust left by our Revolutionary fathers to their descendants, and never did any other people inherit so rich a legacy."

"In view of this fact it was deemed preferable to instruct our new minister to negotiate a new treaty which should omit the objectionable second article and also the few words of the twenty-eighth arti..."

"I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to ratification, a convention for the adjustment of claims of citizens of the United States against the Government of the Republic of Costa ..."

"In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th of April last, requesting information concerning the African slave trade, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the..."