James Buchanan actually said...

"With my deep convictions of duty I could have pursued no other course."

"The just equality of all the States has thus been vindicated and a fruitful source of dangerous dissension among them has been removed."

"The resistance to rightful authority and the persevering attempts to establish a revolutionary government under the Topeka constitution which caused the people of Kansas to commit the grave error of r..."

"will be stopped and compelled to return by the same conveyance that took them to the country."