James Buchanan actually said...

"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 ..."

"Under its shadow American citizens have found protection and respect in all lands beneath the sun."

"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."

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