James Buchanan actually said...

"It is manifest that if the power which this law gives had been withheld the public interest would frequently suffer very serious detriment."

"Entertaining this conviction, I refrained even from sending reenforcements to Major Anderson, who commanded the forts in Charleston Harbor, until an absolute necessity for doing so should make itself ..."

"It has rendered us prosperous in peace and triumphant in war."

"I certainly had no right to make aggressive war upon any State, and I am perfectly satisfied that the Constitution has wisely withheld that power even from Congress."