James Buchanan said...

It must be allowed that these precedents, so numerous and so long continued, are entitled to great respect, since we can...

no nation in the tide of time has ever presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until with...

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 w...