James Buchanan actually said...

"The day of evil may never come unless we shall rashly bring it upon ourselves."

"the country has been eminently prosperous in all its material interests."

"no nation in the tide of time has ever presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until within a very recent period."

"The immediate peril arises not so much from these causes as from the fact that the incessant and violent agitation of the slavery question throughout the North for the last quarter of a century has at..."